Google for example is “superhuman power of search and free knowledge” and treating it as an obvious extension to DC’s or EU’s authority is misguided. It needs an expanded-consent v]conversation, which is pre-regulation, at the level of something like a constitution amendment.
Afghanistan is considered the graveyard of empires from before colonialism though. The Persians and Chinese and Ottomans failed there too. I think that reputation dates to Alexandrian times. I suspect the Internet is not quite so ungovernable.
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Are you sure? I can think of at least three major patterns underlying it -- tech debt, encryption, & communication immediacy -- which makes it the equivalent of mountainous terrain inhabited by an unexpectedly well-armed tribal resistance.
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Also, your hypothetical government which subdued the internet would have to be quite good at technology. That would definitely not be the US government, as it stands. China's probably has the best shot at it. I doubt it's good enough, either, but I've not made an honest assay.
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