What Would Happen if the Internet Wasn’t “Anchored on Zero?”

Democracy would survive, for one

J.J. Pryor
Politically Speaking
7 min readDec 28, 2021

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Structural norms in society are difficult to change. But valuing something at $0 is one way to break them.

Indonesia was one of the later countries to adopt the internet for a variety of reasons, with their connected population only reaching 54% in 2020. According to NapoleanCat

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J.J. Pryor
Politically Speaking

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