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You cannot disobey the bureaucrats. Only they may say what you can do, and when you can do it.

As opposed to megacorporations doing whatever the fuck they want, and fuck everyone.

No, that's not what it's opposed to.

There's a vast ocean of middle ground.

Yes there is, in the "middle ground" fantasy land. In reality, there is no middle ground when such power is involved.