It depends on your municipality. In some they have local ballots where every candidate has to be approved. If they are denied because of racist (or similar) reasons, they can appeal the decision to a court. I believe the cow-bell-lady did that, but i dont remember the outcome.

Edit: did some research, she was granted citizenship recently. Here is an article about her (in english): https://www.swissinfo.ch/eng/society/swiss-passport_dutch-troublemaker-finally-granted-swiss-citizenship/43143162

Some context: This woman was trying to prohibit farmers from equipping their cows with bells, because she felt that they made too much noise. The population in this rural and traditional village did not like that, as they disliked people interfering with their traditions (especially since she was no swiss citizen). Some months later, she asked for naturalization, which was promptly denied by the popular vote in the village.

There are two basic scenarios:

1. The legislative authority is drafting a new law. This law can be challenged and will then be voted on (this is the case for the E-ID law)
2. A suggestion for a new law can be raised by citizens. This law will then be voted on.

Indeed, the lobbying is nasty and the party financing is not as transparent as it could be.

But discrediting the whole system as undemocratic because of those “minor flaws” is just not fair IMO.

You are not required to vote. You will not be punished if you abstain from your vote. You are completely free to chose “yes” or “no” based on your own judgings.

Isn’t that exactly what democracy is about?

You say that you want to do this for “privacy” and “security” reasons. Those two are not the same. What is the exact use-case which you want to prevent?

Disabling WebSockets will cause some Websites not to work properly anymore. Especially such which rely on live updates without reloading the site (most common use-case for WebSockets).

Imo debloating the apps itself is not possible. To do that, you would need to somehow decomplie them, change the code, repackage them and install them as custom applications. This might be possible in theory, but is not feasible in a real-world scenario.

I recommend the following two options:

1. Use different clients where possible. For youtube F-Droid has some alternatives. For reddit I don’t know the current status.
2. Use a VPN based solution such as AdAway. It can block requests based on target IP or Domain. But keep in mind that blocking certain requests can prevent the app from working.

For switzerland the “stem” type probably only applies to farmers nowadays. The others live in a more nuclear family. 100 years ago the graphic might have been applicable ;)

If privacy is your concern, then I’d use two different mail addresses / domains. One with your “professional” TLD (mail@johndoe.com) and one wirh your privacy focussed TLD (mail@anon.com).

Aber auch von deutschen interpreten, z.b. kraftwolf oder den blinden wächtern

Grosser fan des schwarzen sabbates und der eisernen jungfrau