I don't know who you are or what work you do; perhaps it is the greatest work ever done in law and the digital age.
You were linked on Hacker News<https://mailman.stanford.edu/pipermail/liberationtech/2013-June/008839.html>, so I will assume what you are concerned with is important. There is an aspect of this story worth mentioning. It is how *little* power the government has used to protect and provide for the poor and disadvantaged. And just when the economy was improving, just when health care for all could be possible, just when the *evidence* that government could work not just for the privileged, this story, important in it's own right, has the potential to undermine this progress. Government has to begin to work for the collective good of the people and not be exploited by private interests. Yes. We need to protect the people from abusive government power. But it is as much of a problem of how private interests, through law and economics, limit the governments power to achieve a public good. Health care, education, infrastructure, and jobs, are some of the areas that increased, not less, government power could be effectively utilized. I worry that governments ability to work for our common good, is going to be undermined through recent news. I hope all will keep in mind the richness and complexity of the issues at hand. Thanks.
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