If and how states facilitate their citizens' augmentation of information processing is irrelevant
If and how states facilitate their citizens' augmentation of information processing is irrelevant
If and how states facilitate their citizens' augmentation of information processing is irrelevant. Responses to such questions are political. How best (or if at all) to satisfy a need, once identified, is a matter of politics. In extreme cases, it is possible that a government (the issue of which controls are exercisable on any dataset is political anyway, see§06.00.01) may choose not to assist a state’s citizens at all in the augmentation of their information processing, for example, either by affording them minimal restrictions over their information processing (a non-interventionist approach) or by introducing as many restrictions as possible (a fully interventionist approach). (In cases of anarchical and authoritarian states respectively, the two extremes meeting in this regard, see also §26.00.07.) In similarly extreme cases, an aggressive (or oppressive) government may either engage in wars to assist its citizens (because information is finite in the analogue world) or guide them exactly (forcing them) towards the path it considers to be the best one for them to augment their information processing. It is important therefore, at this stage at least, to avoid making any assumptions.
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