Recently, a real ideological bomb went off in the US judicial system, which could help the advancement of libertarian ideas. The New York Times filed a lawsuit, complaining that OpenAI dared to train its neural networks on their texts without permission or paid licenses. It seemed like a routine story; the judges in robes should have simply dragged the business under the copyright broom, as they have always done.

But in this case, the US Department of Justice reacted and filed an official statement in support of OpenAI. As stated, legal norms that significantly hinder the development of a sustainable AI industry in the United States threaten national security and give a competitive advantage to foreign adversaries. To translate from bureaucratic to human: if China doesn’t give a damn about licenses and trains its models on everything in sight, then stifling our own tech companies at the request of copyright holders will only lead to us being crushed.

Let’s appreciate the beauty of this historical moment. For decades, libertarians have been saying that so-called “intellectual property,” patents, and copyright are not sacred private property, but an artificial feudal privilege—a bureaucratic charter from a stationary bandit that stifles innovation and sells thin air. And suddenly, the bandit himself realized: his favorite noose for entrepreneurs has turned into a loop around his own neck.

No one in their right mind would call Sam Altman a free-marketer—he loves negotiating with offices and raking in subsidies. But he has accidentally shown us an excellent bug in the state’s operating system, which it is time for libertarians to adopt. Let’s call it the “national security maneuver” and see how this political technology elegantly mows down any restrictions.

Let’s start with taxes and levies. It’s time to stop whining that it’s robbery. It’s better to play the trump card: high taxes are pure sabotage in favor of geopolitical rivals! Capital and investors are packing their bags for the UAE and Hong Kong, which means with what money will we deploy computing clusters and defense plants tomorrow?

The same applies to the medical bureaucracy (the FDA and its analogues in other countries). If they marinate the certification of drugs, vaccines, and genetic engineering for ten years, they are thereby jeopardizing the nation’s survival in the face of the enemy’s biological weapons!

Or perhaps the prohibitionists want to disarm citizens again? However, in an era of hybrid conflicts, a people armed to the teeth is a free, distributed, and indestructible territorial defense army. Look at the Swiss: a gun in every home turns any foreign intervention into hell. Distributing automatic weapons without paperwork only strengthens sovereignty!

And what about immigration barriers? Keeping foreign engineers, mathematicians, and scientists in visa queues for years is a gift to our enemies. We must suck up brains from all over the world like an industrial vacuum cleaner. Any unpleasant specialist will be building missiles for a foreign army tomorrow. Therefore, opening the borders to qualified personnel is a matter of defense capability!

One could even recall speed limits. Think it’s an exaggeration? But watch closely: speed limits on highways of 60–90 km/h artificially slow down logistics, steal millions of working hours, and keep drivers in stress. And chronic stress is proven to kill testosterone, causing the birth rate to plummet. The question is: where does the draft office intend to get soldiers, drone operators, and engineers from in twenty years? This means a speed limit on an empty highway is a direct undermining of demographic and mobilization potential!

It sounds cynical. But what difference does it make what sauce we use to break through the bars of the regulatory pen, if the result is an expansion of real freedom of action? A stationary bandit will never surrender its powers out of respect for our treatises. But it will gladly trample over copyright, levies, and licenses if it sincerely believes that otherwise, a competitor will devour it.

Voluntarist, Bitarch