Technology
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Don't buy from Apple|Google|Meta|Amazon|...
Don't be part of the problem.
Show up to the polls and vote for parties that wants to reign these criminals in.
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And pray that the candidates elected on those platforms don't backtrack for the lobby of big-whatever.
There's only so much you can do in a representative democracy. A liquid/delegative democracy could be better, but until then, we use the tools we are given.
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How about demanding better tools?
Can a democracy that doesn't reflect and can't act systematically for the needs of the people really be called a democracy?
What good are demands if there's no power behind the demands. I can demand you stop using the internet, but I have no way to enforce it.
We do need better tools, but we need to agree upon what those tools are.
Of course it can. Just because you don't like the way a system is run doesn't mean it isn't what it is. There many forms of democracy (delegative, representative, direct, and all their subforms constitutional monarchy, parliamentary, ...).
Which democracy is the best for the people is of course very debatable. A direct democracy wouldn't make sense in a country with a small elite and large uneducated population for example. The elite could easily influence the rest of the population in many ways: political messages, paid mercenaries, bad worker laws that make it impossible to have time to vote, flooding the system with calls for votes, proposing changes that are bad for the population but incomprehensible to them, ...
It's not easy.
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