Governments control businesses and their customers, and their weapon of choice is legislation. The resulting regulations are so broad and arbitrary that the government can harass businesses until they comply like a mafia protection racket.

The fact that companies can’t possibly obey all the rules means that regulators are free to pursue litigation against businesses that they don’t like. Every business is in violation, so rule enforcement essentially means death. When every business can be put to death by the government without any recourse, that is tyranny.

Twitter and many other companies remove accounts they don’t like. They’ve learned the power of rulemaking, too. Pretty much every account is in violation if you look hard enough. Businesses are learning abusive behavior from their masters and perpetuating it to their users.

Rulemaking, in other words, is the weapon for those in authority to wield power over those they rule. Like an abusive, emotionally unstable relative, those under such authority have to walk on eggshells hoping that they can get through the day.

Natural law is the idea that people have an intuitive sense of justice that’s generally agreed upon and it is by that which we can determine the fairness of an action. A good example of a system based on natural law is English common law. English common law wasn’t something enacted through legislation, but slowly defined and discovered one case at a time. Judges ruled based on social norms and that’s what common law is.

Instead of freedom, we get armies of rent-seekers that focus on compliance to the authorities and this detracts from the actual builders.

Humanity can flourish under decentralized law, in law that doesn’t change all the time. This is the argument behind Bitcoin and the argument against fiat money and altcoins.