Conversely, blindly categorizing all government mandation as authoritarianism sounds like a highway to all kinds of logical fallacies! Is mandating a fair market (by e.g. punishing monopolies) authoritarian? A sensible person would answer no.
Similarly, mandating an Internet Protocol that doesn't require centralization (you know, NAT) and renting an address from the Big Boys (AWS etc) sounds like a perfectly sensible decision to me.
> Agreement is how we have arrived at the imperfect solution we have now...
I disagree. What we have now is not an explicit agreement, it's a status quo which can be broken by an external force.
A sentence written by a pedant that doesn't help communicate.
Followed by another sentence.
Ending with a quote that implies a worldview that the government should use violence without any balance "it's a status quo broken by an external force".
Similarly, mandating an Internet Protocol that doesn't require centralization (you know, NAT) and renting an address from the Big Boys (AWS etc) sounds like a perfectly sensible decision to me.
> Agreement is how we have arrived at the imperfect solution we have now...
I disagree. What we have now is not an explicit agreement, it's a status quo which can be broken by an external force.