From: juan <juan.g71@gmail.com>
   >> I've argued for years that the invention of the Internet will
   > >eventually be seen as a very slow-motion suicide by government.
   >    Not sure if you mean that government embarked in slow motion
       suicide?
   Government will kill itself.
       There are tons of evidence showing that the internet is
       amplifying the power of government in...exactly the way good
       old Orwell predicted.
   The following is still true:
   [1]https://w2.eff.org/Privacy/Crypto/Crypto_misc/crossbows_to_cryptogra
   phy.paper
   The Libertech Project, by Chuck Hamill.
       You are of course free to be as 'optimistic' as you want but I
       feel curious about the rational grounds for your optimism.
   Need I say it yet again?      [2]https://cryptome.org/ap.htm
   The world has had 21 years to figure out a say to stop it.  If as much
   effort were put into implementing it as was put into Bitcoin, we'd all
   be free today.
                Jim Bell

References

   1. https://w2.eff.org/Privacy/Crypto/Crypto_misc/crossbows_to_cryptography.paper
   2. https://cryptome.org/ap.htm