From Wikipedia: The notion of the social contract implies that the people give up sovereignty to a government or other authority in order to receive or maintain social order through the rule of law. It can also be thought of as an agreement by the governed on a set of rules by which they are governed. Hasn’t the internet permanently disrupted the notion of the geo-social contract by reconfiguration and rerouting of the lines of communication?

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The Geo-Social Contract