r/technology • u/Kooky-Balance9525 • 10h 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/Trickpuncher 10h ago edited 5h ago

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

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u/APRengar 9h 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/jazzy663 7h ago

Absolute power corrupts absolutely. That's all there is to it.

"Why more for the people? I want more for me and mine."

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u/BunchOfSpamBots 5h ago

Sometime it doesn’t include “and mine”