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0 pointslxgr2y ago0 comments

In the US.

And you're actually raising a good point here: Only US citizens get to vote on the US federal government, which controls FAA, yet many countries indirectly rely on the FAA as the primary regulator for Boeing, as far as I understand.

Maybe the regulators of a few large industrial nations or the EU have the size/staffing/funding and leverage necessary to make a difference (and that's still a few steps removed from the FAA!). Others (Ethiopa and Indonesia come to mind) are effectively at the mercy of the FAA.

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SteveNuts2y ago· 2 in thread

> And you're actually raising a good point here: Only US citizens get to vote on the US federal government, which controls FAA, yet many countries indirectly rely on the FAA as the primary regulator for Boeing

Except for when Boeing is allowed to regulate itself

lxgrOP2y ago

And who allowed that?

The FAA can outsource the implementation, but not the responsibility.

sokoloff2y ago

Just as other sovereign nations can decide to accept [or not] the regulations as promulgated by the FAA.

freedomben2y ago

when talking about the scale of the US federal government, I don't think average (non-wealthy, non-politically connected) US citizens have any more say than anybody else in the world. I would bet wealthy citizens of other countries have a lot more ability to affect the US federal government than average citizens. A tiny, statistically non-existent vote is entirely meaningless. Basically just symbolic of democratic ideals.

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