Oh yeah: create a publically funded news media BBC style, and train up a new generation of journalists biased towards the truth instead of bowing to the both sides are equally wrong god.

You want responsive elected officials, then eliminate private election financing and fund it all publically. Forbid any revolving doors between govt and business. Create a true civil service - you choose one track, no switching. Shut down corporate voting systems and go paper and pencil.
Thirty years too damned late now. We've lost.

There is nothing we can do about that anymore. The curtain is falling. The last police state, the one that cannot be fought.

Corporations invented fascism. The marriage of government and corporate businesses. Per Mussolini, who invented it.

There is no government that does not influence industry. If there was no government influence of business, business would BE our government.

24: torture works because reasons and Cheney said so. Producers were neocons.

I'm trying to have a conversation with the Arrow writers about their support of torture as a valid tool to extract truth. No response so far.

If the tiny industries of Hollywood and the four record companies sue for trillions, then start taxing that value. An IP tax. Pay up or lower the damage claims. Quid pro quo.

I'd bet large sums that VPN companies are being quietly tamed by the NSA. Do not trust them.

Don't forget authors and actors, who have to pay agents to intermediate, or they don't get contracts.

You are not them. They've little or no choice. Overpopulation has consequences, one of which is reducing labor to negative cost.

there's a difference when a private company does it and the government does it. " no. There is not.

Well DONE. People trust tech so much it doesn't occur to them that data can be faked, if you can access the system backdoors.

Privacy an illusion? This is too easy. What's your name? Address? Children's names, sex ages, pics, and current locations?
How much do you make? What's your car plate ID? I'm sure you won't mind sharing.

Add more cameras, track all cars, put cameras in cars, and there is no place to be alone. Prison with mortgage and car payments.