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Microsoft's DIGITAL PEACE NOW 'initiative' (it's a "petition," but the word that comes to my mind is 'placebo' ) claims, "We cannot have digital peace without government action"; on account of 'many of the cyber-world's cyberattacks and cybercrimes (interfering with democratic elections, shutting down hospitals, forcing small business to close their doors) being perpetrated by government agencies around the world.'

And sure, "governments" are groups with enough resources to protect citizens from the attacks of other powerful groups. But (at least in America) those protective actions are provided 'by free-will of the elected officers.'

I'm not quite sure 'what the problem IS.' (I mean; I know--for instance--they say 'hackers STOLE the 2016 US Presidential Election,' but I don't know "what that means"---they hacked the vote-counting machines, they stole the candidates' IP-addresses, what?

(Or the 'shutting down hospitals'---I don't even know why someone would connect 'a hospital's electricity' to 'the public power-grid' ... the same thing about prisons (which DPN doesn't mention, so it's possible those aren't a problem)).

I think the way to Digital Peace is 'to just keep yourself secure, and to NOT COMMIT CRIMES YOURSELF!' If you do that, what would we need "government-intervention" for?