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   "text": "Institutional corruption follows a repeating cycle: people surrender their power of information transmission to institutions that are initially more effective and efficient, those institutions centralize and ossify into corruption, and new technology then allows people to bypass them.",
   "abstract": "give up their power of information transmission to centralized institutions which are more effective and efficient. These institutions become corrupt after their hierarchies centralize and ossify, then new technology allows people to by- pass these centrally controlled media institutions.",
   "citation": "Craig Calcaterra, Wulf A. Kaal, The Importance of History In Decentralization (2021). SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3782217",
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   "text": "Contrary to the common fear, wide scale decentralization of media power will not collapse centralized corporations, just as Napster and BitTorrent did not collapse the centralized music companies; decentralization does not take power from centralized actors, it increases everyone's power.",
   "abstract": "Wide scale decentralization of power in the media will not collapse the power of centralized corporations, any more than file sharing services like Napster and Bit- Torrent6 collapsed the power of the centralized music companies.",
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