>What if all smartphones formed a mesh network? There aren't enough prisons in my country for all those criminals.
There don't need to be. You publicly gruesomely execute the first 100 or so you catch, and the practice of running a mesh node on your cell phone will fall so far out of fashion that the network breaks.
Societal shortcomings cannot be fixed via tech alone. If you can't build a society resilient to authoritarianism in the first place, tech will not help you. It can be used to increase resilience, but that's far from fixing the problem by itself.
There don't need to be. You publicly gruesomely execute the first 100 or so you catch, and the practice of running a mesh node on your cell phone will fall so far out of fashion that the network breaks.
Societal shortcomings cannot be fixed via tech alone. If you can't build a society resilient to authoritarianism in the first place, tech will not help you. It can be used to increase resilience, but that's far from fixing the problem by itself.