Her answer is not to overthrow government on the Internet but to rethink the traditional concept of government. Dyson, editor of industry newsletter Release 1.0 and chair of the Electronic Frontier Foundation, suggests that making the Internet a place where people will want to do business and let their children roam is a real challenge. In the U.S. model, the people own the government but it has a single set of rules.
People can have many governments.
Take junk e-mail, for instance. Spamming is a big business, because sending e-mail is so cheap. Dyson's proposal, just one of many possible approaches, would make spamming unprofitable. Give consumers control over what e-mail they receive. Here's how such a system would work.