Comment Re:anonymous you say... (Score 1) 34
I think that's wrong, the internet is not inherently lawless, it only is so by a deliberate political choice going back to the early Al Gore/Bill Clinton days.
Corporations exist in meatspace, and must follow the laws where they are based. As the liberal world is slowly disappearing and gets replaced by lots of authoritarian states, you can expect each and every meatspace restriction to become the norm on the Internet.
Because all that is needed is to send in the police into a corporation's headquarters, or a startup student's dormroom, and they will fall in line. And don't think this will cause the authoritarians to lose any sleep over it.