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311 sats \ 4 replies \ @sethforprivacy OP 22 Nov \ parent \ on: I'm Seth For Privacy, freedom maximalist and VP of Cake Wallet - AMA! AMA
In a nutshell -- if you want freedom, you have to preserve your privacy. Without doing so you will be at best manipulated and coerced by ad companies and corporations, and at worst surveilled and oppressed by nation states.
Freedom requires privacy, and without it all other fundamental human rights fall apart quickly.
Hm, I think I get where you're coming from. Do you feel like the general public cares enough about their online privacy? How do Non-Westerners look at their online privacy? Anything you can tell?
I feel like we're extremely spoiled here in the West, whether it be financially - a "safe", "stable" Fiat currency compared to other currencies -, hence the common notion of the broader public that Bitcoin "has no use case", or in terms of privacy, since the average Joe isn't likely to be actively pursued based on what they do online, criminals aside; I bet that this is a real issue and concern of people in countries like Russia, China, North Korea et cetera.
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The West is hard, there is very little "perceived need" even if the real need is high and rapidly growing. I don't even try to evangelize privacy, instead I focus my efforts on tools and resources that can be useful to those that have a wake up call like I had.
There is, however, a rapidly growing segment of the populace (even in the West!) who are realizing the silent oppression that is growing around them and are waking up. Especially over the past four years I've seen massively increased appetite and demand for privacy.
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Hm, "one can only lead a horse to the lake" or something like that, that's true.
I'm also rocking back-and-forth since a while, contemplating whether or not i'd like / need to go down the privacy-way, but i'm kinda lazy in that regard, there has not been the "Oh shit, this is Wunderbar"-moment I've Had with Bitcoin- yet(?)... 🥲
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Privacy is hard because many of the changes you make don't make your life immediately better, and many often have no felt improvement.
It's more of realizing the need and wanting to preserve your future freedom for those of us in the West than it is some existential crisis.
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