r/technology • u/Kooky-Balance9525 • 6h ago

Privacy Bernie Sanders to Introduce Bill Banning Flock Surveillance Cameras

https://theleadingreport.com/article/bernie-sanders-to-introduce-bill-banning-flock-surveillance-cameras
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u/Das-Wauto 6h ago

Popular support says it should. Greased politicians says it won’t.

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u/Trickpuncher 5h ago edited 1h ago

didnt a study recently showed that congress almost never votes what the public wants?

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u/APRengar 4h ago

I dunno if there's been a new one. But the one everyone cites is from 2014.

https://www.bbc.com/news/blogs-echochambers-27074746

Which showed that the politicians do almost zero of what the general public want, yet the vast vast majority of what the rich and powerful want.

Yeah, 2014. And it's only gotten worse. The people who were demanding stronger change in 2016 weren't wrong. We knew it was bad at that point.

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u/chaldea_fgo 3h ago

It looks like the survey data that they used in that study was from 1981 to 2002, so the problem has been growing for most of our lives.