Good points. I see that you are well informed and care a great deal, and I really appreciate your thoughts. I think you may be overstating the degree to which

Good points. I see that you are well informed and care a great deal, and I really appreciate your thoughts. I think you may be overstating the degree to which my optimism in our ability to advance the technology is harmful, or a disservice. I look at technologies like TOR, and FreeNET and I think to myself "Wow. Human ingenuity is such a beautiful thing. We are rapidly approaching the day when we can freely speak and say and share whatever we want. We are building a world where every voice has an equal right to speak and cannot be silenced, but only amplified by curation and consensus. We are approaching a truly digital democracy, and its effect will reverberate across the world. Old authoritarian regimes will collapse - and have already begun to do so, thanks in part to these new technologies." I don't think it's much of a stretch to imagine that we can achieve whatever we set our minds to, and perhaps it is premature to say these technologies are 'available', but the pieces are mostly there, and roads have a funny way of being formed without a roadmap. Sometimes they start as a path, with footprints that wear the ground. Sometimes you need to believe you can do something in order for you to work up the energy and motivation to make the attempt. I don't think betrayal is an appropriate word here. And I don't think it's necessary to solve every problem or point of attack to make major progress. Don't let the perfect be the enemy of the good.