Where Reciprocity Stops
Enterprise AI has not rejected the doctrine of software freedom. It has replaced reciprocity with sovereignty.
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Sovereignty
Where authority over a system actually sits once it crosses a border, a vendor, or a layer someone else operates.
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- 2026
The Sovereignty Test Europe Hasn't Finished Yet
On 3 June, Europe began defining sovereign AI. Debate focused on ownership and inspection. The missing depth is decision sovereignty: the power to challenge, reverse, and correct outcomes.
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The Sovereign Handoff
The standards ecosystem is building the agentic internet — and externalizing its governance.
Also Agentic governance · Institutions
India’s Centralisation Migraine: When Tech and Finance Crush Federalism
Digital public infrastructure and fiscal architecture are concentrating decision power at the centre, and the states are paying for it.
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Internet saga and the Indian state
The growing tendency to imposing full/limited shutdowns and targeting identities for claiming citizen rights are two sides of the same coin — the Indian government’s increasing distrust of its citizens.
Also Institutions