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Originally Posted by David Johnston2
Social network aristocracy. The legislature is made up of the people who have the most social network "likes" and willing to accept the job.
Social network sanctioning. There are no codified punishments for crime, but if you accumulate too many dislikes people stop associating with you, and after a certain point people can gain likes for exacting vigilante justice on you.
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Originally Posted by Irish Wolf
Wasn't that one on an episode of The Orville last year?
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Originally Posted by Žorkell
Yup, it was.
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Not quite. In
Majority Rule, the use of social media likes was merely the meat of their
legal system in that episode; not enough was shown to know about the other branches, but it's pretty clear that they had public works (roads, streetlights, traffic signals), an army (Mentioned in background dialogue), and a system of police (whose job is simply to catch the guy).
(And, it's a nifty mirror of the TNG Episode
Justice - low chance of being caught, exceedingly high price if you are.)
It doesn't tell us at all about how the people doing those are selected, how they're funded, and if there are elected officials.