If instead, open protocols protected the agency of people to speak for themselves, among themselves, and find authenticity, humanism, and compassion, exploited people could stop being shattered into a million pieces and scattered to the wind and having to defer to everything and everyone with more power and resources to narrate their existence as an extension of external priorities... People could directly help one another, move laterally, resolve problems, and approach a dispute with their government and society with more leverage with alternatives that industries, elites, and government withhold. I imagine open protocols by itself doesn't really remove the possibility for people with an incentive to taking any material advantage to destroy opposition whom they already have in a vulnerable position. If we get leverage out of peoples' way, their freedom to excel is instead what threatens and hold their governments responsible, and renders them obsolete, where willing people set the conversation when innoculated against manipulation and obstructions.