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While the Net has certainly scored a point or two against the State, the State has scored a lot more points against the Net. If the State wants your domain name, it takes it. If that's independence, what does utter defeat and submission look like?
Worse: whatever state tyranny exists, it's obviously dwarfed by the private, free-market, corporate tyrannosaurs that stalk the cloud today. We can see this clearly by imagining all these thunder-lizards were actually part of the government. "Private" and "public" are just labels, after all.
Imagine a world in which LinkedIn, Facebook, Twitter, Apple and the NSA were all in one big org chart. Is there anyone, of any political stripe, who doesn't find this outcome creepy? It's probably going to happen, in fact if not in form. While formal nationalization is out of fashion, regulation easily achieves the same result, while keeping the sacred words "private enterprise."
How do today's technologists win freedom from State control?
(Score: 2, Funny) by YeaWhatevs on Sunday November 01 2015, @11:31PM
Lame, TFA never gets to the point.
It started out with 2 "axioms", but never created a theory form it.
It kind of hinted at democracies, but didn't actually spell out any goals.
A bunch of crap history and philosophy references. I hate this sort of talk, it comes off as an arrogant attempt to look like a sophisticated argument without properly engaging the reader or completely stating the argument. Just say what you have to say, if you can verbalize it. Yes I know who these are, and no I don't give a shit.
It raised the extremely obvious point that before BitCoin was live, it was alpha, and subject to reset at any time. It tried to extend this argument to all democracies which extends to the next argument...
It pointed out that new endeavors start out as high trust groups, I find that part interesting, and it could be taken as a lesson that democratizing must done ASAP, but instead it was clearly stated in a context of defense for ... something ... I guess urbit was that something.
It didn't give a roadmap to whatever goals it thinks it proposed.