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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 26 1.2013 18:46, Roland Perry wrote:<br>
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<blockquote cite="mid:S$BNdRqoI8ARFAPq@internetpolicyagency.com"
type="cite">In message <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:51034FAC.4040605@ITforChange.net"><51034FAC.4040605@ITforChange.net></a>,
at 10:38:20 on Sat, 26 Jan 2013,
=?UTF-8?B?R3VydSDgpJfgpYHgpLDgpYE=?= <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:Guru@ITforChange.net"><Guru@ITforChange.net></a>
writes
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<blockquote type="cite">then can you explain what you mean by
'different forms of democracy' in which the lobbying power of
money varies across countries
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The extent to which money can be used to influence politicians
varies in different countries. See
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Campaign_finance">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Campaign_finance</a> for an introduction
to how private money is allowed to influence election campaigns in
different countries, for example.
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<font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif">"</font>In early 2010, the
<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Supreme_Court"
title="United States Supreme Court" class="mw-redirect">United
States Supreme Court</a> ruled in <i><a
href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Citizens_United_v._Federal_Election_Commission"
title="Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission">Citizens
United v. Federal Election Commission</a></i> that <a
href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corporation"
title="Corporation">corporate</a> funding of independent political
broadcasts in candidate elections cannot be limited pursuant to the
right of these entities to <a
href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free_speech" title="Free
speech" class="mw-redirect">free speech</a>." (Wikipedia)<br>
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So corporates in the USA with a lot of resources have the same right
to free speech like a citizen of the USA has. Legal? So says the
Supreme Court. Legitimate? A question.<br>
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Norbert Klein<br>
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