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		ranyume 6 months ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: EU age verification app to ban any Android system ... It's called representative democracy and it's been in crisis for some years now.

dekken_ 6 months ago | [–]

It's so indirect it's hard to even consider it a form of democracy.

I don't.

Saline9515 6 months ago | [–]

The European Commission is unelected. The European parliament can't choose which laws it wants to vote on. This is a simulacrum of democracy.

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