Who Watches the Watchers? The Future of Regulation
source: http://www.activistpost.com/2011/12/who-watches-watchers-future-of.html
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If you get into a conversation about corporate and political corruption your bound to run into the “regulation paradox”. This is just a vague term that I sometimes use to describe the catch-22 that exists when you put a government in charge of overseeing business and social matters. Allowing the government to regulate social matters is like having a fox guard the henhouse; while expecting them to regulate business is like trusting convict to guard a jailhouse.
This not only results in a philosophical paradox, but it also causes widespread panic and confusion amongst the general population as well, which is easy to see if you walk out your front door or turn on any kind of media. Almost every time that some natural law crises pops up, it is usually perpetrated by state and corporate entities working together, so there really is no line of defense for the average person. I guess it all boils down to the age old question of “Who watches the watchers?”
To put that into context lets rephrase that question and ask “how can the general public oversee important matters in a mass decentralized fashion to level the playing field and actually prevent corruption from taking place”? That would definitely have been a pretty hard question before the advent of the Internet, but now it’s starting to seem like this can actually be answered.
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http://www.activistpost.com/2011/12/who-watches-watchers-future-of.html
This not only results in a philosophical paradox, but it also causes widespread panic and confusion amongst the general population as well, which is easy to see if you walk out your front door or turn on any kind of media. Almost every time that some natural law crises pops up, it is usually perpetrated by state and corporate entities working together, so there really is no line of defense for the average person. I guess it all boils down to the age old question of “Who watches the watchers?”
To put that into context lets rephrase that question and ask “how can the general public oversee important matters in a mass decentralized fashion to level the playing field and actually prevent corruption from taking place”? That would definitely have been a pretty hard question before the advent of the Internet, but now it’s starting to seem like this can actually be answered.
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http://www.activistpost.com/2011/12/who-watches-watchers-future-of.html
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Dagum
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Nobody. Actually the entities they are supposed to be watching control the watchers.
- 5 months ago
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