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The Internet was never democratic. When did you get to vote on anything?

> When did you get to vote on anything?

October 2000, there were a worldwide online vote to select some members of the ICANN Board of Directors.

https://www.icann.org/news/icann-pr-2000-09-21-en

I love HN.

Anarchy might be a better description, and that too within reason and having been made less and less so over time via law enforcement and such. The dark web is more of that ideal, but you know where that ends up.

The Internet was built on a synergy between cooperation and competition between the players. As such, the state of disorder implied by "anarchy" does not fit either. Each new competing tech was based on a strong base/protocols/rules made in the previous iteration.

To this extend, the Internet's core is very conservative.

Anarchy as a political philosophy has nothing to do with disorder and rather more with "self-organising".

It's more akin to American libertarianism, but approached from a leftist perspective.

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