>Indeed, cyberlibertarians are all about decentralized power structures. This isn't really true. Libertarians are all about having many centralized power struc

>Indeed, cyberlibertarians are all about decentralized power structures. This isn't really true. Libertarians are all about having many centralized power structures. You could call this "decentralized," but it's decentralized in the sense of email being decentralized -- in reality, four entities control email; in a libertarian world I doubt things would be different. What leftists want is distributed power structures. Facebook is centralized; Email is decentralized; FreeNet[1] is distributed. I think it'd be a lot more forthcoming for libertarians to say what they actually mean -- something like feudalism -- rather than try to lay claim to a historically leftist term[0]. > not just by proxy of representative politicians or collective voting (as in a "leftist" world) Are you using quotes here for a reason other than to tonally denigrate leftism? Voting and representation are hardly hallmarks of leftist political structures. The largest popular leftist movement in the United States recently (Occupy) was based entirely on direct consensus systems (not democracy) (for better or worse). [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Libertarian#Etymology https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Libertarian#Etymology [1] https://freenetproject.org/ https://freenetproject.org/