[governance] Facebook spent $4 million to lobby U.S. lawmakers in 2012

[Roland Perry]

In message <056f01cdfa49$375b4f60$a611ee20$@gmail.com>, at 07:40:51 on 
Thu, 24 Jan 2013, michael gurstein <gurstein at gmail.com> writes
>Yes, but still shocking and disturbing to many outside of the US and
>particularly since the US is so frequently held up as a model of democratic
>governance.

Given that it's not democracy (in the Athenian sense), rather
it's "representative democracy"; what's the problem with people 
telling/reminding their representatives what views they should be
representing for them?
-- 
Roland Perry

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