Just try grabbing some real palpability for yourself, some ill-gotten doubloons or pirated pieces of eight. And then let's see how much real protection from the powers that be the Net provides, and how soon your autonomy withers before a watchful and wary state. Invisibility can just as easily mean irrelevance as it can mean safety from the state. Granted, invisibility can enable netizens to freely do whatever they want except the one thing that would make TAZes relevant - challenge the state. And if you start believing that irrelevance equals freedom, then you really are living in a zone of your own.
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