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

[Riaz K Tayob]

On 2013/01/24 05:52 PM, Roland Perry wrote:
> 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? 

Nothing if one relies on formal equality between people and corporations 
as the US Supreme (?) court found in Citizens United, that has caused a 
flurry of concern amongst some segments of civil society...




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