In my last editorial on CorpCounsel.com, I introduced the “Party of We” — the global power of the Internet Nation and its collective ability to challenge terrestrial nations and change the course of history.

I theorized that, short of turning off access to the Internet, terrestrial nations were ultimately powerless against the united strength of the Internet Nation. My evidence was the ability of a relatively small group of hackers to shut down payment processing by VISA, MasterCard and PayPal over objections to the treatment of Julian Assange and Wikileaks.