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Re:Messaging and chat control by bondarchuk on Monday August 09, 2021 @09:24AM (#28116450)
Mathematically it's not more difficult to determine the majority vote among 400 million people, than among 10 million. What would prevent it from working for you?
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Re:Messaging and chat control by tchalla on Monday August 09, 2021 @09:44AM (#28116714)
> it's not more difficult to determine the majority vote among 400 million people

Democracy is not majority voting.

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Re:Messaging and chat control by thegrimmest on Monday August 09, 2021 @11:01AM (#28117785)
"a system of government by the whole population or all the eligible members of a state, typically through elected representatives."

Basically it is. You don't need representatives to be democratic.

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