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It takes tremendous discipline to control the influence, the power you have over other people's lives.
People in power need to control others in order to maintain power. One of the ways to do that is to take that which is threatening and demonize it.
Intermediary liability enables the Chinese authorities to minimize the number of people they need to put in jail in order to stay in power and to maximize their control over what the Chinese people know and don't know.
I tell the story of eight forgotten founders, people like Canassatego, an Iroquois Indian Chief, who taught Benjamin Franklin about federalism, about the idea that you can form a confederacy in which the central power has only limited powers and local control is retained.