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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