"The world is moving quickly.
Europe is crumbling, Ron Paul is leading in Iowa.
The SOPA fight for the future of the internet is being fought on Capitol Hill.
There is a whole lot of change going on."
They all in one way or another represent an effort at consolidation in a world in which consolidation and increased centralization makes less and less sense.
This is why the federal government has grown taking ever more power from the states and localities, and why many companies have grown and grown into huge corporate conglomerates.
Why not have a central node from which policies can be handed down to the citizenry (in the case of government) or to consumers (in the case of corporations.)
....How are governments to keep everyone in line if individual citizens can communicate with each other at almost no cost? What to do. What to do.
I know! Lets use the government to compel the market (both the market for goods and ideas) back. Let’s restrict file sharing, and institute draconian copyright laws written so broadly they apply to practically anyone on Facebook. That’ll teach the market to change on us."
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