Various examples of a revolving door between complicit bodies that are supposed to exist in parallel to one another have long been known to feed corruption in governments and regulatory bodies. This relationship becomes particularly murky with the presence of lobby groups whose job it is to pressure policymakers, but with modern social media platforms such as Twitter giving a direct line to politicians like never before, lobby groups should be increasingly viewed as obsolete, corruptive and should be restricted. This would go some way to disrupt this corrupt exchange of personnel and could be combined with measures to decentralise government, take some of the power out of the hands of politicians. The internet could go some way to form a greater system of direct democracy worldwide and undermine the power of politicians by giving the power to people directly, and giving government, regulators, lobbyists and private interests less power to make unpopular policy decisions that benefit the few.

theguardian.com/technology/2016/jul/31/trash-talk-how-twitter-is-shaping-the-new-politics