I am coming from the sububurbs of Paris. Internet is not the problem.<p>Internet is expensive, exclusive, not efficient, not securable. It is the wrong tool for privacy. I have taken part in building it.<p>Ideas main vector is words and language and their meaning not the paper on which it is written. Education change the world. Because with or without internet, words get exchanged by humans. All e-learning attempt without someone to mentor have failed.<p>Getting in touch with people is working best where they actually live (at my experience). Internet is a very updated map, not a territory, and it has blind spots.<p>And democracy is not about voting. It is not a system, it is a property that should ideally apply to a system.<p>A monarchy, a dictatorship, a republic can be democratic, the same way that any geometrical figure can be concave or convex. It is just a property that &quot;the people&quot;&#x27;s interest caged (oops born by luck randomly citizen of a place) in a nation are being &quot;fairly&quot; re-presentend.<p>Native americans not being representented by their government on their traditional land (or palestinians in israel, corsican &amp; muslims in france, scotts in UK, ouigour in china, flamish&#x2F;wallon in belgian) is it fair?<p>Well, I don&#x27;t know. Fairness at my opinion is a non achievable goal but a never ending unknown path.<p>Internet has a lot of answers, but very few interesting questions being asked.