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Re:ACTA killed in EU parliament: 478 votes to 39 by vacri on Wednesday July 04, 2012 @09:26PM (#4201379)
It's democratic to silence a voice once heard? 'Sorry, we decided on that, it can never be tabled again'? Ignore changing morals, new information?
Re:ACTA killed in EU parliament: 478 votes to 39 by ajuc on Thursday July 05, 2012 @02:24AM (#4201966)
If there's no limit, you can do trivial DDOS to block ANY decision of EU by corrupting one unelected person, that can only be fired by firing the whole European Commision.

That's begging for decision paralysis. The same problem liberum veto had ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liberum_veto ).

I think it's safe to assume when we voted againist sth once, we can ignore it for next 5 or 10 years.

Re:ACTA killed in EU parliament: 478 votes to 39 by kahawe on Thursday July 05, 2012 @03:58AM (#4202163)
"re-tabling it before the European Parliament until it passes" is completely different from "tabling it again after x years after new information surfaced".

The former suggests pretty much immediate, repetitive, DoS style re-tabling and an intention to force something through despite that matter having been voted AGAINST - the later suggest good democratic processes.