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That's a great quote, as "powerful interests" rightly refers to either government or corporate bodies. A country where the media is lobbied by business is less

• dredmorbius 3y ago
  Late response, but: yes. There's a reason why I chafe greatly with viewpoints which focus exclusively or even significantly, on, say, corporate vs. government power as the greater evil or risk. I'll note that within the past century, religious power was a frequently-cited risk even amongst great power states (it's largely a factor in less-powerful states, though not entirely absent from today's stage). The true concern is actually power itself, however that is manifested. That might be political, it might be commercial, it might be religious, it might be cultural or social, it might be technological. I'm informed here by the "four estates" (church, nobility, burghers, commoners), sometimes a fifth (press), as well as Lawrence Lessig's Code and Other Laws of Cyberspace: Law, Norms, Market, Architecture. Ultimately, power devolves from some control nexus from which a lesser effort need be asserted than the benefit or result which comes from it.