Governments are attacking free speech and privacy hard these days. We’ve got horrifying anti-speech laws in the U.K., Telegram CEO Pavel Durov arrested in France, and threats coming from governments all around that people who create platforms that make privacy accessible to regular people will be blamed and jailed for the actions of others.
We even have a Vice Presidential candidate here in the U.S. who has said, “no guarantee to free speech on misinformation or hate speech.”
There are all kinds of problems with these actions, and people need to fight back to hold onto their free speech rights and privacy.
The government cannot be trusted with surveillance powers, and it cannot be given the power to decide what “truth” is.
All of these governments are marching down a roadmap to gain full control over speech, and we’re already disturbingly far down the road.
Like many authoritarian pushes, the roadmap starts with something legitimate: the “fighting words” doctrine. Then, authoritarians fiddle with definitions until they have total control over what speech is legal.
We need privacy applications that are end-to-end encrypted, open source, decentralized, and have protocol flexibility.
For more, watch the video here, or on Odysee, BitChute, or YouTube.
You can also check out my notes, which includes a detailed description of the roadmap I mentioned above, here.