A.G. Yost has the right idea. Information networks are utilities. We all depend on the truth and accuracy of transmitted information. The fewer lies or errors it contains, the better we can understand our environment or realm.
Accurate Information is as critical to human health as pure water. If the water supply is controlled by partisan monopoly as it is, or if our water is polluted or poisoned or dumped in the ocean by cultists, as it is, we all suffer.
The same is true of our information supply.
Bad information means bad decisions, wasted time, accidents, frustration, anger, fixing blame.
Information Networks are utilities. They must belong to all the users, and anyone who deliberately injects false information into an Information Network commits a crime against every user of that network.
Information is a substance; it can be pure, not so pure, or completely filthy, error filled, dangerous – and utterly impossible to think with.
As our information supply is.
It is kinda obvious, if we are able to think about it; but many of us are not. Our minds are swirling maelstroms of error, poisons and garbage accumulated and conserved over centuries in our corrupt and fallen information networks.
In digital warfare there is something called a "database integrity attack" where error is deliberately inserted deep into data where it's virtually undetectable, and where its hidden presence causes huge errors in the results, which no one can explain because no one can trace the errors.
The same thing happens when we try to think with lies. We create "takes' new interpretations of the same bad facts, or dates, or identities, the lies are buried deeper, the results inaccurate but no more inaccurate than other interpretations based on other bad data.
It's really easy to build a network where it is almost impossible to deliberately inject bad data. Could have, if the intell agencies hadn't wanted it otherwise.
Sela,. We have Quantum networks coming and at the quantum level the purity of information can be analyzed like the alkanes in volatile fuels and quantified for accuracy. .