Clarification: This essay was also released as part of Do Not Research’s second round of releases and on my personal Substack page - it can be found on donotresearch.net, underneath the title, “The Perils of Decentralization: The Internet-as-Protocol” and on samuelposner.substack.com underneath a post bearing the same title. The Perils of Decentralization: The Internet-as-Protocol INTRODUCTION Our contemporary moment is one of great social, political and economic upheaval. In contrast to the ...