Human rights, sustainability... these are fundamental concepts that the UN articulates and promotes for our collective benefit. But they are just beacons: point

Human rights, sustainability... these are fundamental concepts that the UN articulates and promotes for our collective benefit. But they are just beacons: pointing towards a general humanistic direction that feels... right. The strife starts as soon as one gets down to business. Any more detailed visions, implementation or policy specifics get quickly mired in the complexities, alternative options, inertia, vested interests, historical baggage etc of real life. There is no easy escaping that predicament. The only algorithm that can beat that complexity and find paths towards the beacons we know we must reach are the parallel processed trial-and-error efforts of an informed society that is empowered and free to experiment. The real "bug" is anything that impedes that inherent problem solving ability. Whether it is an overbearing state serving the few insiders rather than the many, out-of-control private interests (ditto), or any unholy combination thereof - which is the more usual case. One thing is for sure: The shape of the internet is not a technical matter but goes directly to the heart of what kind of societies we have.