@ahltorp yeah, no. All the Heideggeresk arguments from just-so-etymology about which other German (sic!) words would be more correct to describe the same issue... This is just not it.

Meanwhile the rejection of this particular word obfuscates critiques of dimensions and domains of sovereignty itself, whom it applies to, if it can exist outside of the state and how it intersects with hegemonic practice. The kinds of things I find useful as a linguist and political scientist.

@tante That's prescriptivist linguistics and I'd rather not cede ground on the very thing the term "sovereignty" denotes in an area of political contention.

Popular sovereignty is hard coded into the very first article to define and limit the power of the state in Art.20 of German Basic Law after all, as messy as that foundation is for political equity. I want to deliberate *who* holds sovereignty over the digital domain, rather than play word games. And I want that sovereignty to be equitable.

Now's as good a time as any to remind everyone, just how mundane a powerful act of resistance can be:

Believe women.

Misogyny, the claim to exercise control over women, is one of the core tenets and strategies of fascism. It is especially pernicious as a strategem of mass communication, preying on insecurities of men. To reject the disenfranchising forces against women is an act of liberation for all. Practice solidarity. Practice belief in each other. Believe women.