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“Manipular a opinião dos eleitores ou disseminar propagandas é mais difícil em lugares como os Estados Unidos, a Grã-Bretanha ou a Europa, onde existem medidas regulatórias robustas. O combate ao crime é sólido. Em países onde reina a corrupção, está criado um laboratório ideal, em que se pode experimentar táticas e técnicas que não seriam tão

These commercial battles intensified in the mid-2010s because of a shift in the global trade in drugs. With the European market growing, the north and north-east of Brazil assumed greater importance as centres of distribution and trans-shipment. One of the factors fuelling this shift was the peace agreement in neighbouring Colombia between the

As more and more humans cross more and more borders in search of jobs, security, and a better future, the need to confront, assimilate, or expel strangers strains political systems and collective identities that were shaped in less fluid times.

The foundational trade-off of the internet was to cast scarcity, consensus, and identity aside in favor of freedom and openness.

But just as we see with the most successful entrepreneurs, the state could regain its effectiveness by sealing an alliance with the most potent party of the day, the multitude. Building this alliance starts by providing the multitude with what they want: fairness and quality at scale. And the problem is that instead of improving, the quality of

A boa notícia é que, se evitarmos o comodismo e a desesperança, somos capazes de criar redes de informação equilibradas que controlarão seu próprio poder. Não é uma questão de inventar alguma outra tecnologia milagrosa ou de topar com uma ideia brilhante que, de alguma maneira, havia escapado a todas as gerações anteriores. Em vez disso, para

It hardly mattered that he was a pathological tyrant, that he had the blood of mass murders on his hands, or that his mannerisms and brutal actions conjured images of Adolph Hitler. The United States had tolerated and even supported such men many times before. We would be happy to offer him U.S. government securities in exchange for petrodollars,

Aujourd’hui, cependant, un nouveau Léviathan est en train de naître, comme l’a notamment théorisé Balaji Srinivasan, l’un des penseurs les plus influents issus de la Silicon Valley234 : Internet235. Tout comme l’imprimerie a sapé les bases du pouvoir de l’Église, et la poudre à canon, celles du pouvoir féodal, Internet sape les bases du pouvoir des