So despite early, possibly Utopian projections about the Internet as a "borderless" ICT, between vendor TOS like these and the global copyright regime, the Internet is actually reinforcing rather than circumventing state borders. Apple does seem rather busy reconfiguring and redeploying monopoly. If only their gear wasn't so top.
As an aside, I see the Wikipedia URL misspells fascism. Sometimes I want to be able to let Wiki citations stand as acceptable in student work, and then I see stuff like this.
Perhaps the URL is an in-joke.
Why on earth would you think governments would want 'bordless' environments.... virtual or actual ?
Once business took over the Internet ... well that was the death of that ...
Long live old tech .... i.e. hemp rag message in a bottle.
Way back in the distant past of the 1990's.... there was Ian Angell...
http://personal.lse.ac.uk/ANGELL/papers/FTmoney/FTmoney.htm
http://is2.lse.ac.uk/IanAngell/papers/double%20clicking/double%20clicking.htm
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