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Andreas Antonopolous gave a GREAT talk about this subject when talking about using financial freedom to do more good than harm due to the assymetry of evil. He gave that talk in Zurich. He basically said that in the 1920s, when the restriction of free speech was being debated that a judge basically said "the answer to bad speech is MORE free speech" (paraphrased). That is due to the "assymetry of evil" : there are more people in the world wanting to do good with speech than do evil and hence they will flood the bad speech actors with their good free speech. I hope we haven't forgotten that. In the 1920s they managed to stave off the attack on free speech. It would be sad that in the 2020s it were successful...
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Wow. This is the only argument in the past 8 or more years where I’ve followed both sides and not thought one side was complete bullshit. Yes the dumpy man was a shill, but the argument on both sides was solid, and I didn’t know who Meredeth was before this post, but she’s my hero now. Great discussion, not to be judged. This isn’t the usual US bullshit convo. It’s worth listening to fully.
Well, this confirms my view even more. The move of the central planners is clear: client side scanning that makes encryption moot. Our move can only be total decentralisation: not services but open appliances (open source hardware & software) using open protocols (Bitcoin, Nostr, Bitcoin DNS & cert roots) so that even normies can keep their data safe in their own personal cloud until they are ready to reveal any of it to others or the general public. No mass surveillance allowed on those personal clouds. Business model is just the appliance sales, no service, no ongoing relationship, the vendor can even shield itself from knowing their customers payment identification (using Bitcoin or 3rd party payment processors) or even customers addresses (via couriers)