[immibis]

You might think the state is not an authority, but everyone else who thought that got jailed by the state, so it seems to be the case that it is one. If the state and some protocol disagree, and the state has the power to imprison people using the protocol if they don't cooperate to subvert it (something like this happened to Ethereum IIRC), the protocol has to just deal with it.

[coretx]

States often delegate some of their authority to other institutions. As is the case when it comes to internet governance. Look at the ITU/UN https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multistakeholder_governance for example.

It's outright crazy to see US diplomats work their ass off globally only to see some lower institution ( The FCC ) with less intelligence, capabilities, etc. undermine their work and formal US geopolitical grand strategy & policy.

Or it's all just a ruse, and the joke is on us.

[immibis]

They can add rules or un-delegate it at any time.