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This user just joined HN, 1 hour ago and has 3 points. This is literally astroturf. No comments. No discussion.

Looking at the merits of this ... idea. Sure sounds dystopian to me. Just look at the Appendix for '1729'.

> "Crazy-but-correct ideas..."

Who says this is correct? The person writing the sentence?

"A network state is a social network with a moral innovation, a sense of national consciousness, a recognized founder..."

Whose morals? What national consciousness? A recognized founder? You mean a single monarch? These are all within the first part of that paragraph. Which means they have huge importance.

Here's how I read this:

"We don't like being just CEOs of companies, we want to own our own country too!"

Sure sounds fucked up to me.