[_benton]

What the article describes is pretty sensationalized and full of bias.

Obviously there is plenty of room for it to go wrong but I don't think it's automatically the case that somehow paradoxically, giving the government less control over a region will make that region more authoritarian. I would expect the null hypothesis to be the opposite.

[jqpabc123]

Look at Starbase, TX for an example of how this would likely work out.