For all those who can't handle the anarchic internet

[jamesd at echeque.com]

On 2020-11-15 23:18, Karl wrote:
> To restate:  when you're getting hurt, it's not anarchy.  That's my
> community's viewpoint.

Nuts.

People will hurt people.  For anarchy to work, the bad people have to be
hurt back considerably worse.

This is feasible because good people can cooperate better than bad
people, but for really large scale cooperation for really large scale
violence, you need a commander in chief, a sovereign, and King, and
*then* it is not anarchy.

War is the father of us all.

So, large scale cooperation on an anarchic internet needs effective
means for excluding bad people - fortunately direct violence is
difficult over the internet, which gives the edge to forms of
cooperation that do not require an alarmingly entrenched sovereign.