> No one said anything about retaining footage forever.

It's inevitably what happens.

It doesn't have to be, but that brings us back to the problem being an apathetic or misinformed population.

So, what you propose only works if people weren't people..?

I'm going to have to do a hard 'hell no', in that case.

Well, not just what I propose but a lot of aspects of society would be improved if we could subject people to mandatory reeducation and/or limit who gets to vote. Even just requiring a college degree to vote, or a simple quiz testing knowledge of what is being voted on would do wonders.