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}}The very promise of the digital revolution. A distributed network whose design cleaves to the [[end-to-end principle]] promises its users the ability, never before possessed, to reach one’s clients, friends, relations, countrymen, lovers, fighters, haters — in short, ''anyone'' — effortlessly and ''costlessly''.  
 
The very promise of the digital revolution. A distributed network whose design cleaves to the [[end-to-end principle]] and that promises its users the ability, never before possessed, to reach their clients, friends, relations, countrymen, lovers, fighters, haters — in short, ''anyone'' — effortlessly and ''costlessly''.  


Hence, the great, grand, ''[[disintermediation]]''.
Hence, the great, grand, ''[[disintermediation]]''.