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THE DIGITAL FIEFDOM Capitalism, with all its flaws, at least had a logic: markets, competition, production, profits. Companies were like fishing boats navigating a chaotic ocean, competing to capture customers. There was inequality, of course, but also the possibility — however remote — of building your own ship and sailing. Techno‑feudalism is something else. It is not an ocean; it is a harbor controlled by a feudal lord: Google, Amazon, Apple. These giants don’t fish; they don’t produce goods or compete in the classical sense. They simply own the harbor — the digital infrastructure — and charge a 30% fee to every boat that wishes to dock. If you don’t pay, you don’t exist. Think about it: Google doesn’t produce searches — you do, by searching. Amazon doesn’t manufacture most of the products it sells — you buy them. These platforms aren’t companies in the traditional sense; they are digital fiefs that extract value by controlling access. My article: THE DIGITAL FIEFDOM https://medium.com/@liberlion/the-digital-fiefdom-b814c1ec9bed

THE NEW IRON CURTAIN: THE SPLINTERNET AND THE DEATH OF UNIVERSAL PRIVACY ᴺᵃᵛⁱᵍᵃᵗⁱⁿᵍ ᵗʰᵉ ᴱʳᵃ ᵒᶠ ᴰⁱᵍⁱᵗᵃˡ ᴵᵈᵉⁿᵗⁱᵗʸ Digital identity is the foundation of the modern technocracy; without it, effective control is impossible. I believe this change will trigger a geopolitical fragmentation of the network between nations with and without mandatory identity schemes. For reasons of "national security," countries will not allow internet access from jurisdictions without traffic identification. We are witnessing the birth of a new Cold War: the Iron Curtain v2.0. Phase 1 (Discourse): Mandatory identity on social networks to protect minors, punish hate speech, and prevent the spread of disinformation by AI bots (monitor and regulate public opinion). Phase 2 (Finance & Access): Mandatory interoperability, for the modernization of public procedures, where a single state-issued digital ID becomes the "master key" for all social and financial platforms. Phase 3 (Infrastructure): Total enclosure, to combat illegal trafficking, terrorism, and the drug trade, requiring digital identity at the ISP level just to access the internet, effectively turning providers into state gatekeepers. If you are not a recognizable "someone" to the system, it renders you invisible and excludes you by default. Some countries will not allow connections without KYC, while others will. We are entering an era of deep fragmentation. A single "cloud" no longer exists; instead, we have jurisdictions in conflict. This is where the old paradigm fails. Tools like VPN or Tor lose operational effectiveness. Not due to technical flaws, but because of structural exclusion: without a validated identity at the gateway, encryption is irrelevant because traffic is not permitted. Access to the privacy coin blockchain will be complicated. Digital sovereignty today is about understanding the board. The challenge is no longer purely technical but strategic: anticipating where connection will be allowed, where it will be blocked, and what forms of communication will remain possible. In a world of increasingly closed and monitored networks, the key for the sovereign individual is the ability to navigate between these islands of control without becoming trapped in the surveillance architecture of a single jurisdiction. This content is included in the next chapter (#4) of my book -published periodically- UNDERSTANDING THE INFORMATION AGE. THE SOVEREIGN INDIVIDUAL. https://medium.com/@liberlion/understanding-the-information-age-the-sovereign-individual-index-eea277fe6bef

INTEGRITY OF A SYSTEM When analyzing a system (any system), you don't need to master its entire architecture; you just need to identify three specific vulnerabilities that, when chained together, compromise its integrity.

I am not seeking to challenge central authority. That would be suicide. I am seeking to ignore it, to evade it. ᴸᵉᵗ ᵀʰᵉʳᵉ ᴮᵉ ᴰᵃʳᵏ🏴a³ Lunarpunk🌒 That's why #Monero #agorist #monerist #SovereignIndividual 💯 👇🏻 View quoted note →

THE LIMITS OF AI The critical risk of #AI lies not in its power, but in its degree of integration. As long as it remains an external tool, control remains in human hands; once assimilated into the operational core, it transforms from an assistant into an autonomous agent.

That's why they are co-opting BTC, and lobbying for more regulations. And you know what? They are succeeding.

I don't care which political party controls the government. I don't want to be controlled by anyone.

MARKET TECHNOCRACY In the book 'The Sovereign Individual: Mastering the Transition to the Information Age' ─James Dale Davidson and Lord William Rees-Mogg, published in 1997, it was already anticipated that politics (moral debate, voting, and consensus) would be replaced by megapolitics (technology and economics). In this scenario, the management of society ceases to be a matter of “social justice” and becomes a matter of system efficiency.