"And it’s this split, between cooperative and competitive relationships between people which the internet reveals as being fundamentally subject to political and technical biases. We can work together on the internet, but we can’t hurt each-other (very much) and the result is a place in which creative cooperation is easy, destructive competition is hard, and the rules make the game."
— Vinay Gupta at Edge Ryders. The Council of Europe exists to prevent the next European war