[bmj]

Still, based on the article, it's pretty clear he is looking at Wikipedia, or open source in general, rather than the State.

Could we build such a thing? It'd be as unlikely as a noncommercial, volunteer-written encyclopedia. It would require vast resources. But it would have one gigantic advantage over the proprietary search engines: rather than relying on weak "security through obscurity" to fight spammers, creeps and parasites, such a system could exploit the powerful principles of peer review that are the gold standard in all other areas of information security.

Peer review is a critical element in open source software, and less so in governance (though, theoretically, it is supposed to be).