Build Your Own Country? - Balaji Srinivasan & Michael Malice
#NetworkState
A "network state" is basically seasteading but the territory is distributed across existing states instead of floating in international waters?
Listening to an interview with folks from Data and Society on the Sunday Show, a podcast of Tech Policy Press;
https://techpolicy.press/interrogating-tech-power-and-democratic-crisis
They mention the "network state", which I'd never heard of.
(1/?)
i guess "god's wrath will throw fire upon the sodomites" is what passes for a #libertarian take in 2025, because this is one of the main guys trying to build the #NetworkState.
(he's the CEO of #Praxis, "the world's first digital nation" that's funded by a lot of the crypto bros including Peter Thiel, #Balaji, Joe Lonsdale, the #Winklevoss twins, #Paradigm (big crypto fund), a #Worldcoin guy, and a bunch of others). cc: @gilduran.com @gilduran
* the tweet: https://x.com/drydenwtbrown/status/1939412375871836384
* more on Dryden Brown: https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2023/09/praxis-society-city-dryden-brown-peter-thiel/
#pride #lgbt #Thiel #Pronomos #PeterThiel #crypto #cryptocurrency #NetworkState #broligarchy #Broligarchs #JoeLonsdale #TheNetworkState #gay #christianNationalism #DrydenBrown #a16z #nerdreich #thenerdreich
"Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past." - 1984
And in this case, whichever one of these #NetworkState fetishists (Altman, Musk, Zuckerberg, Pichai, Amodei) achieves market dominance first could very well shape that reality in their own image.
Orwell Didn't Predict Grok, Bu...
The new zone would be run by tech companies. #NetworkState
$215 million fine for a San Francisco based AI/fintech (and I'm assuming crypto) VC fund GVA Capital that was laundering money for russian oligarchs (at least until someone makes some "arrangements" with the #Trump family)
few understand the extent to which a lot of these tech VC funds exist mainly as ways to launder / re-onshore criminal assets...
(h/t @cybeardjm)
https://ofac.treasury.gov/media/934366/download?inline
#uspol #uspolitics #nerdreich #sanfrancisco #SFpol #russia #ukraine #putin #SuleimanKerimov #corruption #NetworkState #Ukrainewar #sanctions #GVACapital #VentureCapital #AI #fintech #Putin #OFAC #crypto
Analysis: "Tech Moguls Want to Build a Crypto Paradise on a Native American Reservation"
The broligarchs are solving this "problem":
"For thought leaders who want to move fast & break things, what can be done about laws that get in the way?"
One “special economic zone" is Próspera in Honduras, "an autonomous jurisdiction with limited regulations."
And "a tech-backed carveout of Native territory already exists".
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2025/06/tech-crypto-native-american-musk-balaji-network-state/
Analysis: "Tech Moguls Want to Build a Crypto Paradise on a Native American Reservation"
The broligarchs are solving the problem: "For thought leaders who want to move fast & break things, what can be done about laws that get in the way?"
One “special economic zone" is Próspera in Honduras, "an autonomous jurisdiction with limited regulations."
And "a tech-backed carveout of Native territory already exists".
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2025/06/tech-crypto-native-american-musk-balaji-network-state/
Tech Moguls Want to Build a Crypto Paradise on a Native American Reservation
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2025/06/tech-crypto-native-american-musk-balaji-network-state/
Tech Moguls Want to Build a Crypto Paradise on a Native American Reservation...
...And hope to gobble up some land near you.
@kieraevebutler.bsky.social of @motherjones.com exposes yet another #NetworkState project.
www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
Tech moguls want to build a cr...
Un article dans Libé du 29/05 sur le concept des "Network States" et autres "Freedom Cities" très en vogue chez les libertariens nourris aux mamelles de la Silicon Valley.
Original : https://www.liberation.fr/idees-et-debats/network-states-quand-les-rois-de-la-tech-libertariens-revent-de-faire-secession-20250528_ACDXAWL5FZATLLLYID2PS67PWY/
Archive : https://archive.ph/cuAnP
PS: je travaille sur un long post sur ce sujet pour mon blog depuis un certain temps. A suivre...
Palantir co-founder Joe Lonsdale recently accused Balaji Srinivasan of “insane CCP thinking” for not getting behind the project of fusing Silicon Valley to the Pentagon.
It exposed a disagreement on how to best expand the power of the tech elite, but not on tech’s deeper right-wing turn.
https://www.disconnect.blog/p/the-ideological-rift-on-the-tech
@eff @newyorktimes Opportunity missed? #Palantir and #PeterThiel are at the very heart of the #NetworkState project (also see #Project2025) intent on ending liberal democracy and indeed USA as a republic.
It also strikes me as insane to have Palantir involved in #EuropeanDefence projects. In fact most of the new military startups in the USA are intimately linked to the fascist-leaning #techbros... 😬
Elon Musk's SpaceX town in Texas warns residents they may lose right to 'continue using' their own property.
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/05/29/elon-musk-spacex-starbase-texas.html
“Freedom cities” are being pushed by Network State figures, a dangerous step toward corporate rule and lost rights. #NetworkState #CorporateDystopia #BigTech
I'm too tired to summarize. Suffice to say: the "network state" cretins just loooooove to throw around anarchist-y sounding jargon (anarchists being well known for their eternal quest to find that one special kind of state that will fix everything).
Fuck those guys.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/may/24/wyoming-vacation-lodge-rightwing
#NetworkState #NRx #CurtisYarvin #NickLand #neoreaction #BalajiSrinivasan #fascism
A long read on how anti-democracy bros are settling up yet another settlement, this time in Wyoming.
Story, WY is about 400 miles north of Denver, CO. The article details the laws in WY that allow for anonymous incorporation. #Wyoming #NetworkState #RightWingStrongHold #DAO #Compound
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/may/24/wyoming-vacation-lodge-rightwing
Remote Wyoming vacation lodge emerges as haven for US ‘dissident’ right
Wagon Box Inn, founded by Paul McNiel, attracts figures with ambitions to push politics and culture rightwards
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/may/24/wyoming-vacation-lodge-rightwing
Excellent and important investigative reporting by @jasonaw.bsky.social and @awinston.bsky.social on the #DissidentRight and #NetworkState proponents who wet-dream about thousands of small #CompanyTowns replacing nation states.
#FarRight
#Techno-Feudalism
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Remote Wyoming vacation lodge ...
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