> In cyberspace only individuals can have sovereignty.
If you set the sovereignty at the lowest hardware level, it doesn't seem right to call it a space: what you are postulating is a set of unconnected nodes. To a get a network you will need individuals to give up some of their sovereignty to a shared entity that decides things like what protocol to use.
Absolute decentralization is difficult or maybe impossible.
But you don’t need absolute decentralization to achieve sovereignty. For example a small group of certificate authorities are trusted by all of us for privacy, however these CA’s are unable influence what we encrypt since they can’t see what we encrypt. So relying on a provider doesn’t always have to equal control. Decentralization does not equal Sovereignty. But it helps.
If you set the sovereignty at the lowest hardware level, it doesn't seem right to call it a space: what you are postulating is a set of unconnected nodes. To a get a network you will need individuals to give up some of their sovereignty to a shared entity that decides things like what protocol to use.