The government can pass any
laws it can get through Congress -- fewer and fewer. The Supreme Court can make
all the rulings it wants. It is way too late. The genie is long out of the
bottle. There is no way that any national government can put a cork back in the
digital bottle. The
decentralization inherent in the World Wide Web is going to accelerate.
Decentralization has only just begun to disrupt the near-unanimity and
near-secrecy required for modern governments to impose their will on citizens.
We are in the early phases of the loss of legitimacy for civil governments
around the world.
I
don't see how the owners of Facebook can do anything to stop this. I don't
think the owners of YouTube and Google can do anything about it. They make
money with the spread of ghettos. They rake in the money. The more the ghettos
multiply, the more money they rake in. This cannot be reversed. This will not
be reversed. There is just too much money in it.
