๐ Building Continuum - Chapter 24 โ Power, Custody, and Authority
Every digital system encodes an answer to a quiet question: who ultimately decides? Decisions about access, identity, publication, and record permanence are often treated as policy issues, but they are architectural first. This chapter explores how authority is embedded in infrastructure, how moderation and account systems concentrate control, and why custody redistributes baseline power without collapsing social order. Sovereignty here is defined not as isolation, but as structural dignity.
