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Re:Apple – Privacy – Government Information Requests by adventured on Thursday September 18, 2014 @05:05AM (#8334331)
You get the government the majority of voters vote for.
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Re:Apple – Privacy – Government Information Requests by CamperBob2 on Thursday September 18, 2014 @05:28AM (#8334388)
You also get the one the majority didn't vote for, since it's more or less indistinguishable from the one they did vote for.
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Re:Apple – Privacy – Government Information Requests by mkal_tsr on Thursday September 18, 2014 @06:37AM (#8334540)
Minus that whole lobbying, "corps are people (only when convenient)", and gerrymandering thing, exactly!
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Re:Apple – Privacy – Government Information Requests by ddebernardy on Thursday September 18, 2014 @01:22PM (#8336421)
I'd agree if US voters actually bothered to go voting, and participated in their own democracy instead of turning their brains off and watching TV. But seeing how they don't, the US really gets the government that the most active/noisy minory supports.

(The same is largely true in the EU, even though it's possibly more pronounced the US.)

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