On the digital world breaking down governments’ control over the(-ir) states
On the digital world breaking down governments’ control over the(-ir) states
Because a government controls its state, it can allow or prohibit any processing operation on its (the state’s) platform. This it does to the exclusion of any other Being. A government, having as its sole purpose the control of the state, zealously holds on to its privileged position; it does not share control with any other party. Although it can be claimed that this absolute and exclusive internal control by the government over its state was introduced only after the emergence of the Westphalian state (see §16.00.08), this is not the case: no government (chieftain, king, city council or emperor) has historically ever accepted sharing control of its state with anyone. Simply put, a government does not, and will not, share control of its state—not willingly, at least. (Cases of state succession are meant here (see §15.00.00), rather than cases of internal political strife that might lead to replacement of the government by another.) How is such control attained in practice? Myriad information processing operations take place, both on the information platform that is the state and by the state itself—how can a government monitor and control all of them? (Total control is impossible anyway, see §06.00.02,—it is an unreachable and unattainable aim of government, see §16.00.05.)
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