>As technologists we haven’t used our positions on technical standards boards, etc., to force protocols that would preserve freedom there's no such thing becau

>As technologists we haven’t used our positions on technical standards boards, etc., to force protocols that would preserve freedom there's no such thing because it's in the very nature of protocols to enable legibility and automation which always benefits centralization. (see James Scott, Seeing like a State). The internet, book-printing, even 'crypto', whatever you pick that sounds superficially decentralizing is in actuality re-centralizing because it enables more powerful administration and as such higher forms of organization.