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142 sats \ 0 replies \ @kepford 15 Jul \ on: Censored news
This article isn't bad. This person points out some real problems but the solution is in tech/tools and exercising your freedoms. No government can grant rights like freedom of speech. No government will protect your rights because at a certain point it is against their interests. The people must exercise their rights and develop tools that make it impossible for them to not be free.
Here are some examples:
- Gun powder
- The Internet
- Tor
- Bittorrent
- Bitcoin
- Nostr
Some examples of people exercising their rights and peacefully resisting the state.
- Slaves leaving their masters
- People helping slaves escape their masters
- People refusing to fight in wars
- People refusing to obey Jim Crow laws (both blacks and whites)
- People practicing home schooling with it was not sanctioned by the state.
- People exercising their right to defend themselves
- People refusing the shots during Covid
I could go on but you get the idea.
I am glad there are people fighting in the court system for the rights of people to be free but it has been clear to me for years that this cannot be the main focus. Conservatives talk about the Constitution like it is their holy book. Those they fight view it completely differently. Both sides seem to not really be thinking as much as feeling. In my experience you cannot reason with most of them.
This is why Bitcoin is so important. Like many other tools if it works it cuts through these mental blocks.