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> I was pretty convinced back then that the internet would help to blur the lines between States, but it appears that the opposite has happened. I'll disagree.

> I was pretty convinced back then that the internet would help to blur the lines between States, but it appears that the opposite has happened. I'll disagree. The idea that we can use things like proxies shows how the internet has little regard for our ideologies. On top of that, people aren't going to stop just because Netflix makes it harder, they are just going to pirate instead. So officially, yes, the internet hasn't blurred the lines. In reality, Internet-users are becoming quite disenfranchised with the entire "State" idea, and frankly just wander around it.

TeMPOraL 11y ago
And this, including the long debate about piracy in a parallel thread, is an example of those worldviews in conflict. It's happening. Myself, and a lot of other people I know, don't feel tied to the nation states at all. Where many are still thinking about themselves in terms of their countries, we consider ourselves citizens of Earth and members of human race first, and the nationality is something I'd call a cultural quirk local to our geography. We speak different languages, but we see it in the same way as different hair colors. Just funny, but ultimately irrelevant quirks. We had that utopia for a while, but now it seems that we need to fight to preserve it. IMO, pushing regional borders onto the Internet is a step backwards for humanity.