Governments, meanwhile, are hemmed in by borders. If you want decentralization, therefore, then you should be on the side of governments. If you want centralization, the market is where you will find it. The ideology of the cyber libertarians is quite reliably the opposite of the truth, and so it is here. Measures that supposedly produce a decentralized society will in fact reliably and predictably accomplish the reverse.
Markets work when they work.
We should just stop lying about what markets are and what globalization is. And about many other things, such as the role of the Internet in all of this. Global networks are not a force for decentralization. To the contrary, our lives are increasingly mediated, structured, monitored, and regulated by electronic systems that are controlled by highly centralized firms. We must learn to live in a world where these inescapable switchboards of institutionalized human life are much bigger not only than our own selves as individuals, but also than our democratic governments, small as they are, and herded as they are into line by the globalization and privatization of the policy process.