My personal problem with being a decision maker in a contentious process is that I am a software developer, not a politician. And the difference is that politicians enjoy many more legal privileges that protect them, for example: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parliamentary_immunity
And this is exactly why certain pressure strategies can be used to easily remove dissenting voices from such public, yet legally unprotected decision bodies
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To add to that, the only way to make an efficient governance system that can cope with contentious decisions, but operates in an extralegal space, is to use so-called the “veil of decentralisation”. And that means always put contentious decisions to the hands of the users of the networks, or the operators, who are not easy to identify and pressure