Not sure how this is about democracy or otherwise. Regulation exists in various countries, for example regarding internet plan speeds. In Germany, ISPs can’t just slap on “up to 300 Mbit/s” on the plan and then say “oh it’s only 50 Mbit/s at your house, tough luck”. Performance sucks (conditions apply)? Pay less or cancel immediately (without notice period).
Ah, but they can slap “up to 300 Mbit/s” on the plan and then hope you won't notice, which most user's won't. If the worst that can happen to them is that you get out of long contracts (which shouldn't even be the norm to begin with) then that's hardly an argument that we have effective regulation.
There's nothing bizarre here: there are enough people in those democracies, who believe regulating this is either not a good idea or not high enough priority
I doubt think that's true at all. In most representative democracies (UK here) we just don't have the ability to vote on such fine-grained legislation. If you asked the person in the street "should companies be held to absolutely strict truth in advertising for quantitative claims", once you explained what it meant (!), I'd warrant the vast majority would agree, yes they should.
It's anti-democratic, and anti-capitalist to allow misinformation on products. Markets can't optimise if you allow misinformation.
>If you asked the person in the street "should companies be held to absolutely strict truth in advertising for quantitative claims", once you explained what it meant (!), I'd warrant the vast majority would agree, yes they should.
This overestimates support because you're vague on what the policy actually is, so everyone thinks that it's going to be their preferred variant being implemented. See: the brexit vote which got a majority vote for "yes", but in reality the none of the individual proposals got majority approval.
If hypothetically 10% of the population said A but you slice up B into specific enough buckets then A wins even if the overwhelming majority dislike A.
Brexit was only a policy question if you combined two different questions. “Should we stay in the EU?” and “What kind of foreign policy should we have?” People answering Yes to the first question also had plenty of diversity in how they wanted to answer the second question.
> If hypothetically 10% of the population said A but you slice up B into specific enough buckets then A wins even if the overwhelming majority dislike A.
Yes, if you're only allowed to vote for a single option. If you're allowed to vote yes/no for each option, or rank them from best to worst, then this problem doesn't happen.
Well, you can ask your representative to represent you, right?
I live in a place with direct democracy and it's much less regulated than the UK. Therefore the link between having the ability and actually regulating more is not obvious to me.
> anti-democratic, and anti-capitalist to allow misinformation on products
Is it though? I mean, it might be bad, but I don't see how it's necessarily anti-democratic, as it has little to do with the governance model.
They do, especially outside of the United States, but there’s also a ton of corporate money spent to promote libertarian ideology so a non-trivial number of voters believe that regulation is inherently harmful.
Read the top comment about misleading or deceptive conduct in the EU. There is a similar regime in Australia and companies don’t do it lest they face steep fines and lawsuits with good payouts and very few defences available. Good democracies regard this kind of law as a necessary part of capitalism, because it harms not only the consumer but the entire system. Maybe yours hasn’t figured it out yet.
I am afraid, some day, the "Portable"DF ecosystem will be fragmented and guarded by wannabe monopolies like all those CAD formats. Does adobe try to monopolise the PDF ecosystem and pulls dirty tricks?
It is also told, that the EU has the toughest negotiators in the world. They got trained full-time on inner conflicts and just keep burying interlocutors, no matter the country.
Standards and requirements will change, bits will rot, and im not expecting any ecosystem, to keep up with comming and going demands.
A better solution imho would be project level capabilities, so you can pull in a dependency but restrict its lib/syscall access, so it would not compile when it turns malicious.
Maybe it will solve at least something, maybe some day.
Agree. I'd like to see an OpenBSD pledge(2) type system for libraries. So you can mask individual library capabilities rather than just programs. I don't want a web server that can write to the file system and I don't want a CSV reader that can talk to the network.
Doing this kind of thing at the library level is generally not very useful, because security protections between things running in the same process are hard to make very strong.
This is a limitation of the particular language/ecosystem though, it feasible in a new language that has this security baked in to the language primitives.
Calling the german media left is like calling the democratic party left.
It is such a propagandistic master piece of rebranding core left values of wealth distribution, which greatly threatens the true powerful ones, as beeing about gender, migration, environment and whatever virtue fashion signal is current.
The right side falls for a simple enemy image and the left is as unimaginative as you can be, whe you have no clue about the underlying problem, certain aspects of capitalism. It works so daunting well.
I didnt call the German media left, as I called the private media diverse in opinion, I call the German public broadcast left which is rather the perception of the German public in majority. It is very sad that you misquote me.
I didn't quote you. I was speaking about the distorted 'left' label.
This distortion is mirrored in this conversation too. It is sad, that you didnt pick up my main point.
Besides, yes you were speaking about Rundfunkanstalten where i was speaking about the media in general. Minor misconception in the broader scheme of the mighty and their useful idiots.
>I call the German public broadcast left which is rather the perception of the German public in majority.
The public perception of any group got capsized by the internet ... speaking of labels.
