alt Hacker News> Well yes but once you're in the US someone owns the machine you're getting hit by and you can make them take it down.
That's not how you get to high trust, since it requires the opposite -- you'd have to ID everyone and ban VPNs and restrict access to general purpose computers lest any fall under the control of a dastardly foreigner etc.
You can't build a high trust society inside of a police state because a high trust society is one where people do the right thing when no one is holding a gun to their head and a police state is holding a gun to your head.
This is such a weird take because the US is a high-trust society precisely because of effective policing and the justice system. You're right that it's not the moment to moment gun to your head as for why it works because you won't always have a cop looking at you, but it's not because men are angels—it's because the long arm of the law which deters bad actors even without the gun because they'll get caught eventually.