Power

Control is not necessarily effective. The fact that control over a processing operation is exercised by a Being, which may prevent another Being from carrying out that operation, does not necessarily mean that that particular processing will not happen after all. The other Being may be able to ignore the prohibition and carry out the processing operation anyway. This is the meaning of power: it is the ability to ignore controls (in practice, prohibitions; the reverse, to impose processing on an unwilling Being, is a matter ultimately connected with morality). Of course, power is exceptional (and, hence, coveted): if many Beings acquire power, then this becomes the new control (or lack thereof). In other words, if an initially prohibited processing operation is in practice carried out by many, in spite of the prohibition, then control changes accordingly (in regulation), from prohibited to allowed (see also §00.02.12).

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