because alleged criminals are prosecuted by the State on behalf of the People. Public opinion doesn’t really factor into it.

But how much of the online world are we?

As someone who struggled to understand what the fediverse even was, the email analogy was what made it finally click for me.

For me, it was pretty clear that the analogy was only about how different servers could talk to each other, and that the underlying technology wasn’t equivalent. I never even considered that people might use the analogy that way until this article.

Companies will just increase prices whenever they can get away with it

Fixed that for ya.