The Internet is the most liberating tool for humanity ever invented, and also the best for surveillance. It's not one or the other. It's both.

The Internet may well disempower the nation state, but at the same time, it also strengthens certain specific state functions - like surveillance. As a political entity, it doesn't empower the nation sate. It creates the availability of much more data than the digestive system of the nation state could possibly assimilate.

The Internet treats censorship as a malfunction and routes around it.

The Internet is a collective hallucination: one of the best humanity has ever generated.

I had always thought that the idea of love at first sight was one of those things invented by lady novelists from the South with three names.

So I'm just waiting until one party or the other actually gets a moral compass and a backbone.