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Originally Posted by Paul Markham
Maybe. And look at what the effect is.
With an uncontrolled Internet we have children able to access things they should be kept away from. People stealing anything they can. And the potential profit and future of the Internet stifled.
Governments around the world pass laws that control what we do. You really think the ability to control the Internet leads to that less freedom.
Freedom to do what? Is the question.
Most here live in a Democracy, a Government that did anything too outrageous will have to go to the electorate and explain it in the future.
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The United States is not, nor has it ever been a democracy. The USA is and always has been a (Federal) Representative Constituional Republic and it was not until the administration of FDR that the myth began to be perpetrated.
Democracy is merely tyranny of the majority and has never worked anywhere in the world.
The United States is the world's oldest federal constitutional republic.
First, it is federal because a union composed of fifty partially self-governing states and federal one federal district united by a central ("federal") government. The self-governing status of the component states are constitutionally well-established and may not be altered by a independent decision of the central government.
Second, the country is a constitutional republic because it is is a state where the head of state (President) and other officials (Legislative Branch: Senate and House of Representatives) are elected as representatives of the people, and must govern according to existing constitutional law (The Constitution of The United States) that limits the government's power over citizens.
Furthermore, in a constitutional republic, the executive, legislative, and judicial powers are separated into distinct branches and the will of the majority of the population is tempered by protections for individual rights so that no individual or group has absolute power (Checks and Balances). The fact that there is a constitutional law limiting the government's power; makes the country constitutional.
The fact that the head of state (the President) and other officials are chosen by election, rather than inheriting their positions, and that their decisions are subject to judicial review makes the United States republican in nature.
Recent administrations, including the current one have been actively egaged in the erosion of civil rights and will not stop until every move of the citizens is subject to the control of Big Brother.
Sally.