Re: <nettime> For any reason or no reason - on virtual (extra-)territoriality

[Morlock Elloi <morlockelloi@yahoo.com>]

How is the credibility of the fiction of the government diluted by subjecting
one of its manifestations to the good will of a private corporation, whose only
motive for not flipping the switch off is accounts receivable?

Or is this just a start of the new strain of banana republics, Sweden being the
first one? We need a new name for that, for states not controlling ICANN, ARIN
and major search and social networking engines.

Browsepublics?

> The 30th of May, Sweden will be the first country in the world to
> open an official Embassy within Second Life, the online 3D multi user


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