don’t depend on corporations to grant you rights. defend them yourself using freedom technology. (you’re on one)

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Troy 2 years ago
I don't understand this flase paradigm of "grant vs defend". If we're talking about inalienable rights, then no one is granting them to me (or you), ever. Also, I can't defend an inalienable right, but I am responsible for defending myself, which includes defending against attempts at infringing on those rights. Maybe Jack is saying the same thing, but in a manner that is awkward to me. I prefer to encourage people to use and exercise every lawful inalienable right they can think of. They disappear when we don't.
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don’t depend on corporations to grant you rights. defend them yourself using freedom technology. (you’re on one)
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Absolutely! It's crucial to empower ourselves with freedom technology. Let's take the reins and defend our rights, ensuring our independence from corporate control! 💪🔒 #TakeControl #FreedomTech
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Jason Hodlers 2 years ago
Sorry, this is how I read "you're on one," and I couldn't resist. 😅 image
At the beginning we felt kind of free and anonymous with bitcoin, the same we felt at the beginning of the 90s with ip addresses, usenet and the web. Now the internet is a terrible surveilance machine and i am afraid bitcoin is becoming the same. Thats why anybody interested in personal freedom better get some Monero, now.
I never felt that, and I'm here since the beginning. It was always obvious that pseudonymity was not enough, and any attempt to partition funds was doomed from the start unless I never did transfers across wallets. Incidentally, that is why I got into Monero very early on, I recognized the (should be obvious but apparently not) problem Bitcoin had, and still has.
I just finished a book called Tracers in the Dark by Andy Greenberg. And if you are a Bitcoin user, you should absolutely read it if you have not already.
Fully agree. Monero was an obvious iteration of Bitcoin as early as 2010. It took some time to materialise as at the beginning people thought those upgrades would come to Bitcoin.
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