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You will likely have to get Governments around the world more selectively involved in it.

As systems, governments are playing catch up in many areas, while leading in areas we don't want them to have power.

For example - governments should have already put out rules against skinner box games, the most popular kind on Facebook and the rest of the net.

Governments made rules against things like subliminal messaging - because it targeted and manipulated human choice at a subconcious level.

We wont be able to protect ourselves against corporations, unless we have coordinated action. The mechanism for this is always going to end up being political.



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