When has the **AA ever violated human rights? Every time they use their version of justice to threaten, rob, or kidnap a being for viewing or sharing information.
And every time they keep useful information from a being because of their laws which have been designed to suck money out of the progress of humans.
Nope. Self governance is autocracy, and usually doesn't scale well beyond 1. Autocracy is the self rule of a person Democracy is the self rule of a people.
Democracy is control by the populace, quite literally agreed
and in spirit. In spirit? A thing either is or isn't especially in a system that controls many people on this planet. Do you run Linux or do you run Linux in spirit?
Whether the form of representative democracy most "western" countries employ is the best implementation is debatable Republics are not an implementation of democracy and no amount of political fluff is ever going to change that fact.
I guess I'm a fool for seeing value in the arts that I love in my life, a value worth paying for. If you give money to people who use protection rackets to artificially allow them to control the use of light and sound, then yes, you are a fool.
who is doing RIAA's dirty work? Do you mean: Who is using threats of violence, theft, and abduction to control information and make a small number of people wealthy? If so the answer is the governments, all of them, so far...
The only solution I see is a democracy*
A democracy is a long sought after system of self control that has only recently become technically possible to achieve. Who will be the first?
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And every time they keep useful information from a being because of their laws which have been designed to suck money out of the progress of humans.
Democracy is the self rule of a people. Democracy is control by the populace, quite literally agreed and in spirit. In spirit? A thing either is or isn't especially in a system that controls many people on this planet. Do you run Linux or do you run Linux in spirit? Whether the form of representative democracy most "western" countries employ is the best implementation is debatable Republics are not an implementation of democracy and no amount of political fluff is ever going to change that fact.
The only solution I see is a democracy*
A democracy is a long sought after system of self control that has only recently become technically possible to achieve. Who will be the first?
I sure hope nobody uses this with a freshmeat parody. I mean, can you imagine smelling rancidmeat.net ?