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“A line in the sand” is nothing more than the limit we draw on our willingness to accept rules and behaviors we consider unjust, even when holding that line means making hard choices.
You don’t choose Bitcoin because it’s easier.
You choose it because it’s right.
Proudly @BULLBITCOIN_
You don’t choose Bitcoin because it’s easier.
You choose it because it’s right.
Proudly @BULLBITCOIN_
If you don't already get a degoogled phone asap. Use xmpp and simplex for chat. Forget X, nostr only.
Agree! Anyway thank you for your advice !
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EU subjects, because there are few of us who are actually Citizens, are letting things slide just as they’ve let everything else slide until now... After all, while most people grasp the concept of ...
Everything you’ve described is real — the herd mentality, the Overton window shifts, the deliberate erosion of cheap computing, the gap between where decentralized tools are and where they need to be.
And yet.
In this journey I’ve met people who make concrete choices every day: about the apps they use, the hardware they buy, the platforms they refuse to feed. Not because it’s easy or convenient, but because they understand what’s at stake. They’re not waiting for the revolution. They’re building habits, infrastructure, and culture, one decision at a time.
I don’t know what the future looks like. Nobody does.
But I know that giving up isn’t an option, not because of optimism, but because of what’s on the line.
We don’t stop to ask ourselves why we define private property. We just do, because it’s foundational, because without it, everything else collapses. Digital privacy is no different. There are no rights without it. No free thought, no free expression, no meaningful ownership of anything, including yourself.
The people who understand this are fewer than they should be. But they exist. And every day they choose accordingly.
That matters. Even when it doesn’t feel like it.
And yet.
In this journey I’ve met people who make concrete choices every day: about the apps they use, the hardware they buy, the platforms they refuse to feed. Not because it’s easy or convenient, but because they understand what’s at stake. They’re not waiting for the revolution. They’re building habits, infrastructure, and culture, one decision at a time.
I don’t know what the future looks like. Nobody does.
But I know that giving up isn’t an option, not because of optimism, but because of what’s on the line.
We don’t stop to ask ourselves why we define private property. We just do, because it’s foundational, because without it, everything else collapses. Digital privacy is no different. There are no rights without it. No free thought, no free expression, no meaningful ownership of anything, including yourself.
The people who understand this are fewer than they should be. But they exist. And every day they choose accordingly.
That matters. Even when it doesn’t feel like it.
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Every surveillance system in history was built for a good reason. None of them stopped there.
Today, the EU begins its final negotiations on Chat Control 2.0, and the threat to your privacy isn’t over. Mandatory scanning of encrypted messages? Off the table, but the Council is still pushing for mandatory identity verification to use messaging apps, including end-to-end encrypted ones.
Privacy is not a tool for hiding wrongdoing.
It is a necessary condition for free thought, free expression, and free relationships.
The real question isn’t only whether to monitor private communications. It’s what kind of digital society Europe wants to build.
But Europe is its citizens. This question belongs to us. We can’t keep outsourcing centuries of hard-won civilization.
One “necessary exception” at a time.
Today, the EU begins its final negotiations on Chat Control 2.0, and the threat to your privacy isn’t over. Mandatory scanning of encrypted messages? Off the table, but the Council is still pushing for mandatory identity verification to use messaging apps, including end-to-end encrypted ones.
Privacy is not a tool for hiding wrongdoing.
It is a necessary condition for free thought, free expression, and free relationships.
The real question isn’t only whether to monitor private communications. It’s what kind of digital society Europe wants to build.
But Europe is its citizens. This question belongs to us. We can’t keep outsourcing centuries of hard-won civilization.
One “necessary exception” at a time.
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Think privacy and economic incentives are incompatible? Watch this video. Payjoin for everyone.
https://youtu.be/dTSZ9nDFQ5Y
https://youtu.be/dTSZ9nDFQ5Y
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Chat control will eventually pass because it’s NOT about child protection. It’s about institutional expansion masquerading as security policy. Europol stands to triple his staff and massively expand his power. An entire EU Centre will be created with ongoing funding.
Once these institutions are built, once the infrastructure exists and the budget is allocated, scaling back becomes politically impossible. We’ve seen this pattern before. The Patriot Act. And the question will be: “what else can we do with it?”
This is how mission creep works: build the infrastructure for one purpose, then discover - conveniently - that it can serve many others. Today’s is CSAM. Tomorrow it’s “extremist” content monitoring.
This is securitocracy in action.
Once these institutions are built, once the infrastructure exists and the budget is allocated, scaling back becomes politically impossible. We’ve seen this pattern before. The Patriot Act. And the question will be: “what else can we do with it?”
This is how mission creep works: build the infrastructure for one purpose, then discover - conveniently - that it can serve many others. Today’s is CSAM. Tomorrow it’s “extremist” content monitoring.
This is securitocracy in action.
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A heartbreaking injustice.
Keonne Rodriguez has been sentenced to 5 years in prison and fined $250,000 for creating Samourai Wallet.
The judge called privacy “anti-social,” ignoring the real threats faced by ordinary people.
Those with courage pay for the indifference of those who refuse to see how brutal this war will be.
Keonne Rodriguez has been sentenced to 5 years in prison and fined $250,000 for creating Samourai Wallet.
The judge called privacy “anti-social,” ignoring the real threats faced by ordinary people.
Those with courage pay for the indifference of those who refuse to see how brutal this war will be.
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I posted this in another thread, but maybe it makes sense here, too:
All of the danger and controversy about messaging platforms/companies being required to install master keys (colloquially called ...
we tolerate closed devices because they’re easy, safe, and subsidized. And because we’ve forgotten what computing freedom feels like.
Julius Caesar figured this out in 50 BC with a stick and some scratches. We are working on quantum computers and we’re still explaining why backdoors don’t discriminate between good and bad guys.
Have a great Global Encryption Day! 🙃
This is not a policy debate. It’s collective amnesia.
October 21, 2025
Have a great Global Encryption Day! 🙃
This is not a policy debate. It’s collective amnesia.
October 21, 2025
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