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Re:Beware Centralization by aiNohY6g on Sunday October 03, 2021 @03:34AM (#28735267)
"can" as "power" != "can" as "legitimacy". Very roughly speaking: FAANGS have power, states have legitimacy. Hence the clash with us, entangled in between but also in position to do sth about it (should we be aware of these dynamics).
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Re:Beware Centralization by grey-area on Sunday October 03, 2021 @03:38AM (#28735295)
I disagree. Legitimacy can be bought or borrowed.

Indeed how did nation states get their legitimacy? They took it by force and impose it by force on those who disagree.

There is nothing natural or immutable about our current power structures or nation states.

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Re:Beware Centralization by aiNohY6g on Sunday October 03, 2021 @03:43AM (#28735318)
I absolutely agree with everything your comment, although I wrote the one you replied to. Hence the "very roughly speaking". The mutability is precisely where some freedom for adjustment is.
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