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Isn’t any system of governance in a given region (geographic, or virtual) involuntary? Unless you just mean “you can leave if you don’t like it,” but that’s true for all systems of governance.
> “you can leave if you don’t like it,” but that’s true for all systems of governance. Is it? Can you just leave North Korea if you please?
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Isn’t any system of governance in a given region (geographic, or virtual) involuntary? Unless you just mean “you can leave if you don’t like it,” but that’s true for all systems of governance.
Not an expert on the topic, but my understanding is that anarchy rejects governance in general - there wouldn't be any "elevated decision-making body". It's not as much "you can leave if you don't like it" as it's "if you're here then you can change things". I'm not prepared to defend this but that's the view - if you have a system of governance it isn't anarchy so if the argument is "all systems of governance are at…
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True reason is of course that the arbitration courts side with those paying the bills. Otherwise they would have few repeat customers.
If you can buy a judgement wouldn't people just refuse to be judged by such courts? The arbiter would risk losing all their customers.
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I'm curious about the dark web like I am with a lot of technology, but I've always been subject to a (perhaps self-imposed) chilling effect where I fear being "marked" simply for researching the tools. Am I just being paranoid/chicken?
I have little doubt that my ISP logs each time I connect to Tor. What happens to this information from that point? Who knows. I won't live in fear, as that is the same thing as oppression, only self-imposed.
There is a comic I remember from my childhood, "Tom the Dancing Bug" written by Ruben Bolling. He had a character called "Harvey Richard, Lawyer for Children". I linked a couple of examples [1], [2], [3], [4] but the satire, IMO, is incredible. It lampoons humanities proclivity to layer pseudo-rationality onto the irrational things that we do. It also reminds me of the TV show "The Wire" when Stringer Bell, a senior…
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> If you rely on an incentive model of being caught in order to behave, something darknet doesnt offer, that says more about you than anyone else. People who rely on an incentive model only are typically psychopaths or sociopaths. What you are saying is that Darknet has no mechanism for policing sociopaths, and therefore is likely to attract them.
Which has nothing to do with you or any specific persons use of onion services
A false statement.
Anyone choosing to use such services should be mindful of the fact that the services are appealing to sociopaths and have no policing mechanism.
I live in NJ where weed is legal but you can't buy it (legally) so we are sort of in a weird spot. anyway, it makes me really not care about ordering weed on the dark web from CA. if the feds catch it, its an ounce of weed to a residence, they don't care and im not gonna go in front of some federal judge on federal drug crimes. if CA or NJ catch it, its legal there, who cares. but the site I use uses an escrow system…
if they seize any powder, they might come a knockin'!
Customs on the other hand...
Though if it's small volume they will often just send you a scary letter in the mail, especially if it's just sketchy looking pills. Or if the scammer is smart they'll just send you the letter and take your money ! Or at least that's what SWIM said from my wasted 20s. LMFAO I miss earlier internet sometimes
There is a comic I remember from my childhood, "Tom the Dancing Bug" written by Ruben Bolling. He had a character called "Harvey Richard, Lawyer for Children". I linked a couple of examples [1], [2], [3], [4] but the satire, IMO, is incredible. It lampoons humanities proclivity to layer pseudo-rationality onto the irrational things that we do. It also reminds me of the TV show "The Wire" when Stringer Bell, a senior…
But these comics are great.
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What if centralized authories are naturally emergent because individuals demand them?
I'm happy to call it naturally emergent as long as we also call Amazon and eBay's policies naturally emergent, but doing that would be rather vacuous.