A beginning-of-time model fundamentally and irreversibly eroded – Leviathan’s demise
A beginning-of-time model fundamentally and irreversibly eroded – Leviathan’s demise
The digital world today has eroded this age-old model by removing exclusive control of information from the reach of the state. Now individuals (who have become users) transact over online platforms, bypassing the mandatory state controls (borders, customs etc.) of the past. They study online and acquire certificates from organisations that are not necessarily nationally accredited or supervised. They create cross-national communities and exchange information or carry out common projects without any state involvement. They have direct access to information generated outside their countries’ borders, completely unmonitored by their states. Governments that had previously comfortably controlled the flow of the personal information of their citizens through control of the state now face competition from private online platforms (which are controlled by and form the territory of competing states). The age-old, beginning-of-time model of government control over the (its) state, and the state’s control over its citizens, is being fundamentally challenged.
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