Policy is technology. Technology is not just engineered artifacts but the cognitive models and social practices surrounding them. Policy is a vastly powerful te

Policy is technology. Technology is not just engineered artifacts but the cognitive models and social practices surrounding them. Policy is a vastly powerful technology that mediates the social and economic resources necessary for technologies like the internet to be created, have utility for society, and thrive. So, yes, we need to solve this with technology -- policy itself, technology for improving the creation of policy and the selection of those who turn it into legislation, technology for combating disinformation and educating the public on protecting their rights, technology for detecting and disseminating information on relationships between entrenched interests and policy makers. Networking technology of the kind you mention may be part of that, but on its own it can never be a panacea. Policy will always necessarily exist, and it will never be solved -- it's a dynamic system.