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Crytocurrencies provide people with the ability to execute censorship resistant transactions. Who else would want to send censorship resistant transactions oth
by stale2002 9y ago
Crytocurrencies provide people with the ability to execute censorship resistant transactions.
Who else would want to send censorship resistant transactions other than people who are at risk of being censored?
The modern era is still relatively free of censorship, and thus the people using cryto are pretty far on the shady end of the spectrum.
But trend toward censorship in the modern era, is worrisome. Perhaps a whole lot more people are going to have to protect themselves against censorship in the future. And by censorship, I mean censorship done by ANYONE, including both the government, AND ultra powerful corporations that may as well be the government.
- mrb 9y ago"The modern era is still relatively free of censorship" Don't take this as an insult but what an ignorant comment... Financial, political & journalistic censorship (all inter-related) is rampant. Start by reading: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freedom_of_the_press https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freedom_of_the_press
- jacquesm 9y agoAnd follow up with 'Manufacturing Consent'.
- stale2002 9y agoI don't disagree that these things are bad. But all things are relative. Perhaps I just have a bleaker imagination of how bad things COULD be. I worry that as bad as things are today, we will look back on this era as a comparative golden age of freedom.