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Very cool story. It would be great to have such a law (not the surveillance law; the 50K signatures = referendum part). But then, consider all the states with ballot referendums that are routinely abused by deep-pocketed interest groups that have money to spend on signature gathering and TV ads. Direct democracy works best when people are educated enough to use it intelligently.

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How a Small Company in Switzerland Is Fighting a Surveillance Law - and Winning

By Jenna McLaughlin, The Intercept

25 January 2016

A small email provider and its customers have almost single-handedly forced the Swiss government to put its new invasive surveillance law up for a public vote in a national referendum in June.     

 full article:     http://readersupportednews.org/news-section2/318-66/34817-how-a-small-company-in-switzerland-is-fighting-a-surveillance-law-and-winning