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The internet interprets censorship as damage and routes around it. The free market interprets regulation as damage and routes around it. Wanting to control ei
by kybernetyk 10y ago
The internet interprets censorship as damage and routes around it.
The free market interprets regulation as damage and routes around it.
Wanting to control either of both is an exercise in futility.
- tacos 10y agoThe problem with these platitudes is that they distract from the real issue: all the money is made by the players who control the "routing around." It is not futility at all. It is a vital energy input to the system. Broken to you -- fixed (as in "rigged") to them.
- bdcravens 10y agoGun owners see gun control as damage and routes around it. Business owners see labor laws as damage and route around it.
- vonklaus 10y agocorrect. I agree with you as well as parent to some degree. However, chiefly, it shoud be noted that Business Owners and Gun Owners operate in the free market and presumably use the internet. Wherease everyone who is operating within a freemarket or active on the internet may not be a gun owner or business owner. The parent is talking about at a system level. You are talking, at least my charrachterization of it, about a layer of abstraction within a system.
- SilasX 10y agoThe Void interprets Existence as damage and
- FordPrefectAO 10y agoWhat about the article today: Chinese censorship can teach the world that it works?