Simple: the average person doesn't care enough to realize when they should be
speaking up as their rights are eroded.
It's not till they themselves are
on the hotseat that they might - if they have the background information because
they were sorta paying attention - realize what they should have done to avoid
getting there in the first place. Most end up there lost in a daze as to what's
going on with absolutely no idea how they became the slave because they choose
to be ignorant of the situation. Ignorant in the sense of not having the
knowledge/awareness of what was happening - too busy with other things to pay
attention to something that doesn't immediately impact them.
A few
decades ago it was a Government trying to decide they had total power over
people: Germany under Hitler.
Nowadays, it's lead by Corporations and
Lawyers.
Obviously not all Corporations and not all Lawyers... but
without the Lawyers helping the Corporations, the Corporations wouldn't be
getting so far so fast.
For just two examples:
The Lawyers that
drafted the EULA that was attached to music cds from BMG that said "if you move out of
the area where you bought the cd, you must destroy the cd".
The Patent
Lawyers willing to play word obfuscation games to get E=MC2 patented
when they know it's not patentable subject matter.
I sure wish there were
more Lawyers with the ethics of Abraham Lincoln:
You must remember
that some things legally right are not morally right.
Given the
context of discussion, it'd be nice if a lot more Prosecutors were like that
too.
Caveat: I'm pulling the specific clause I remember from the eula on
the cd's of the Sony Rootkit fiasco from memory. As the EULA appears to no
longer be available I can not explicitly confirm the exact clause that was in
the EULA wherein I got the specific impression outlined.
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