There is a way to prevent (almost totally) that kind of things to happen. I live in the province of Quebec (Canada) and we have a law that forbids conpanies to contribute to a political party (or limit to 1000$, I don't remenber). Also, the maximum total amount of money a party is allowed to spend on a campain. This means that money is not (or almost not) an issue in a campain.
Of course, there's still some lobying, but at least, a company cannot openly pay a candidate to promote its ideas.
I thnik the best solution to that is having options in the browsers to counter that. For example if, by default the browser wounldn't allow 'redirect', 'pop a new window', 'disable-back' it would be a lot simpler. Actually, just a warning on redirects would be nice. I find that browsers (or at least netscape, I don't use ie) have way too many features for their own good. Those features are most of the times used against you any way. 90% of the pop-up windows I have are to show me some ads I don't care about.
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There is a way to prevent (almost totally) that kind of things to happen. I live in the province of Quebec (Canada) and we have a law that forbids conpanies to contribute to a political party (or limit to 1000$, I don't remenber). Also, the maximum total amount of money a party is allowed to spend on a campain. This means that money is not (or almost not) an issue in a campain.
Of course, there's still some lobying, but at least, a company cannot openly pay a candidate to promote its ideas.
I thnik the best solution to that is having options in the browsers to counter that. For example if, by default the browser wounldn't allow 'redirect', 'pop a new window', 'disable-back' it would be a lot simpler. Actually, just a warning on redirects would be nice. I find that browsers (or at least netscape, I don't use ie) have way too many features for their own good. Those features are most of the times used against you any way. 90% of the pop-up windows I have are to show me some ads I don't care about.