> No way. Guaranteeing the integrity of Amazon's Customer Review data is not the job of the state According to many theories, much of the point of the state is

> No way. Guaranteeing the integrity of Amazon's Customer Review data is not the job of the state According to many theories, much of the point of the state is to lower transaction costs. That's why states get involved in things like creating default rental agreements, setting up standards of weight and measure, inspecting pumps at gas stations, stamping out ponzi schemes, running courts to enforce slander laws (even when the target is a corporation), etc. I'm a pretty extreme libertarian. I'd like 99% of the government to go away. Maybe more. ...but I'm going to assume that we're holding this debate in the real world, not in a science-fictional Heinlein-esque anarcho-capitalist moon colony. ...and if that's the case, then 99.9% of people think the job of the state DOES include stopping people from intentionally gumming up third party transactions.