The Billionaire's Debt-Bride
"The academic board there has deep ties to the old Kael-Thorne procurement contracts. They aren't trying to stop the broadcast they're trying to curate it. They want to decide which stories get archived and which ones get 'rebooted.'
The idea that our hard-won freedom was already being measured for a new cage made my blood boil. "They can't curate the heart, Damian. Rule 61 made the ledger sovereign."
"On paper, yes," Damian countered, turning to me. "But in practice, they control the hardware in that region. If they suppress the Irish node, it creates a blind spot in the global network. A blind spot where they can continue to trade in the old currency of secrets."