In what way, then, are states information platforms for their citizens?
In what way, then, are states information platforms for their citizens?
All of the above points provide useful and relevant visualisations of a state as an information platform. Platforms are distinguishable both in their literal and in their metaphorical sense. One can see them (when physical) or understand their existence (when metaphorical) from outside or from within. They thus have a territory (in which they are sovereign) and borders. These circumscribe the information platform that is the state. On a platform, people, or things, can stand; in states as information platforms people can carry out their lives, processing information pertaining to other people and things. On political or other metaphorical platforms people share beliefs in ideas; states as information platforms function under common rules (regulations). Platforms’ inherent flatness is also relevant; all can stand on them and all, at a specific point at least, are equal, having an equal footing on them (see §22.00.07, on equality as a platform right), regardless of the fact that this equality only lasts for a moment. The information platforms that are states can be visualised as informational islands in a vast sea (our planet). Some of these islands may decide to come closer together and form larger constellations, to form archipelagos. The EU is the first such archipelago, the precursor of things to come, as will be seen.
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