John Bokma wrote:

>>>The Internet is not a democracy

OK, you got me. I misspoke. Perhaps Usenet is better
termed an anarchistic system with loose oversight.
P2P is also similar to anarchy, although to be pure
anarchy, pairings of users would have to occur
without any supervision or assistance from any server
or server operator. So P2P is near-anarchy.
As is the Internet itself, since nothing in the USA
can prevent any person at some IP address from
tryin to connect with another person at another IP
address, and possibly succeeding; except the govt,
which doesn't interfere much.