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Without a rock solid system of open, participatory governance, centralized authority over things like certification is just an invitation to abuse. We can't allow the Internet to be hijacked by a small core of megalomaniacs, or by some national government or governments... But peer governance also has problems. Systems that depend upon the trustworthiness of members of groups as opposed to a reliance on due process can fairly easily be subverted. You're probably familiar with what happened to Anonymous last year when the group's de facto leader, Hector Xavier Monsegur, aka Sabu, turned his fellow Anonymous hackers in to the FBI. After a lapse in caution had revealed his identity, Sabu found himself under pressure and, in their time-honored way, the FBI apparently offered to reduce the pressure in exchange for a few names of his colleagues. That sort of thing will happen, and the larger the group the higher the probability that one of its members will fail to uphold the standards of..