Who else could claim sovereignty? The government

Of all other Beings within a state (at least in the analogue world), only the government, because it controls the state, could raise a sovereignty claim over all the information processing happening in a state’s territory. The government controls the state; it has the ability to allow or prohibit processing operations both on the state and by the state. The former, in particular, means that the government has the ability to control the processing operations of others (other Beings) on the information platform that is the state. The state is always sovereign, because it is omnipresent, but it is up to the government to itself become sovereign (and, thus, omnipotent, because the government, unlike the state, has a will), that is, to control indirectly all information processing on the platform that is its state through its control over the state.

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