Checks and Balances

There is danger from all staff. The only slogan of a free network ought to be to trust no staff member with enough power to threaten the public liberty.

In creating a network, the difficulty is you must allow the staff to control the users; and afterwards to control itself.

Pure democracies have always been scenes of anarchy and chaos; they are as short in their lives as they have been violent in their deaths.

The ancient democracies, in which the users directly made all decisions, never possessed one feature of good government. Their very character was tyranny.

The accumulation of all powers in the same hands is the definition of admin abuse.