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In my opinion, any form of action that is based on a political or social arrangement is doomed to fail as it is subject to hijacking at best. Any potential solution(s) has to be routed in actual technological changes that are backed by well designed protocols that cannot be changed over night or misused in the benefit of whomever wields the stick at any given point.All else is waste of time.

That´s just my 2 cents though!

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Yeah, but you do have to try.

The political and social arrangement of the U.S. Constitution, for example, is worth trying to preserve. It will only endure if most of us, and our leaders, agree to follow it.

Most such arrangements are shared illusions that are doomed, unless we agree to follow them. It really boils down to that, because we are all fundamentally free to act as selfish savages of we want.

But the internet is a political and social arrangement. It's easy to forget in cyberspace the very physical situation of electrons and photons moving through wires and air. All this exists in pipes on the surface of the earth, in satellites overhead, and in undersea cables. These are all owned by somebody, or some thing. If you want to really get at the root causes of the issues TBL is raising, you're going to have to address the idea of private property. TBL isn't doing that (as far as I can tell), and so of course everyone (and thing) is on board.

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