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You are limiting your definition of society to one that can be described by defended political borders. It's circular and tautological. I would argue that the

You are limiting your definition of society to one that can be described by defended political borders. It's circular and tautological. I would argue that the internet is a society that's broader than these political borders, obviously exists, and does so entirely outside of government control. I would suggest you both missed this definition of society.

int_19h 3y ago
Not at all. On the contrary, what we can see in those distributed internet societies (internet as a whole is not a society, it's a medium) like e.g. Wikipedia, is that various forms of organized governance also emerge past a certain scale. There are extremely few places on the internet that are fully ungoverned.