"Virtual tyrants can be disempowered only in a world where protocols, commands, and dataflows are as publicly-owned as numbers, letters, and rules of logic. The inner workings of software programs need not be open, but their interfaces with the outside world must eventually be as open as the deep blue ocean."
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