Vote for devices? Companies?
Jake, the election is rigged!
Walk with me down this garden path, if you please... :)
Regulation of the manufacture and distribution of medicine is a good thing.
'Regulation' just means that corporations and individuals aren't blindly trusted to do the right thing with regards to medicine.
That's because bad medicine generally has a profound impact on people's lives.
Somebody could put some bad medicine in a bottle, but there are actually organizations checking for this and there are severe penalties.
Cellphones aren't medicine, but the impact that a bad device can have on people's lives is growing every day.
It would appear that each person's identity is largely composed of their memories and their internal processes, which were also shaped by their experiences.
As devices become our primary source of information, the devices become more important. More powerful and potentially more dangerous.
Today, Samsung (for example) would never get away with filtering all negative news articles about a particular political candidate out of all their users' feeds. Nor would they get away with inserting positive chatter about their own devices.
For how long will that be true?
We have to establish some sort of minimum quality standard for the devices through which we are going to experience life. Yes, rules!