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“Can they stop it?”
“No.”
Claire looked at her. “That sounded too quick.”
“They can damage access. They can scare users. They can shut down app stores. They can pressure telecoms. But the core is distributed.”
“Meaning?”
Jinji’s eyes stayed on the screen.
“Meaning they’d have to break half the internet to kill it.”
Vincent lowered himself into a chair.
“And if they try?”
“They prove we were right,” Jinji said.
“No,” Claire said. “They prove they’re afraid. That isn’t the same thing.”
Jinji looked up.
Claire didn’t back down.
Reports came in all day.
Some felt like justice.
A minister in Berlin admitted to bribes on live television and resigned before dinner.
A Tokyo manufacturer confessed its medical device had failed safety tests. The recall began within the hour.
A police chief in Atlanta denied burying misconduct reports, then collapsed under a Level Two response. By morning, the files were public.
But other reports did not feel like justice. 90