Vote for devices?  Companies?<p>Jake, the election is rigged!<p>Walk with me down this garden path, if you please... :)<p>Regulation of the manufacture and distribution of medicine is a good thing.<p>&#x27;Regulation&#x27; just means that corporations and individuals aren&#x27;t blindly trusted to do the right thing with regards to medicine.<p>That&#x27;s because bad medicine generally has a profound impact on people&#x27;s lives.<p>Somebody could put some bad medicine in a bottle, but there are actually organizations checking for this and there are severe penalties.<p>Cellphones aren&#x27;t medicine, but the impact that a bad device can have on people&#x27;s lives is growing every day.<p>It would appear that each person&#x27;s identity is largely composed of their memories and their internal processes, which were also shaped by their experiences.<p>As devices become our primary source of information, the devices become more important.  More powerful and potentially more dangerous.<p>Today, Samsung (for example) would never get away with filtering all negative news articles about a particular political candidate out of all their users&#x27; feeds.  Nor would they get away with inserting positive chatter about their own devices.<p>For how long will that be true?<p>We have to establish some sort of minimum quality standard for the devices through which we are going to experience life.  Yes, rules!