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Agreed. The history of power is church->liberal democracies and republics->corporations. The net-state is a great term! but it refers to the medium through w

Agreed. The history of power is church->liberal democracies and republics->corporations. The net-state is a great term! but it refers to the medium through which the corporate state is projecting power, akin to the social contracts and armies of the papal and liberal states. We definitely need a bill of rights and constitution under the net-states. One that our liberal institutions can defend.

danarmak 9y ago
> We definitely need a bill of rights and constitution under the net-states. One that our liberal institutions can defend. A constitution, and institutions that may uphold it, would be internal and specific to a particular net-state. Just like with real states, they can't be enforced on a net-state from outside except by extreme use of force. This is a good thing: I don't want a single Net-wide constitution for all present and future net-states, because I don't trust any single body to write or enforce it! Variation between net-states is broadly good, as long as emigration is easy. So I'm not sure what you mean by "our liberal institutions", but if you mean "our US non-net liberal institutions", then as someone who's not a US citizen I don't want them to have power over me.