1Eyk15KEeYX9JwH8e98pqpX3kTUuY9d43C (622) ·
Listening now to the Numpties, with Roger Ver...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xrnwlCQ-l9o&feature=emb_logo
Paused at 54:26, after Steve talks about building then changing the law (as an oversimplification/paraphrasing)... Thoughts to come:
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1Eyk15KEeYX9JwH8e98pqpX3kTUuY9d43C (622) ·
Right now, I think people underestimate just how many boundaries are already being tested where law is concerned.
There are privacy, tax, and regulatory battles being fought right now, most of them in quiet corners of the legal systems of the world.
1Eyk15KEeYX9JwH8e98pqpX3kTUuY9d43C (622) ·
I think what should be recognized is that these legal battles aren't all being waged by CSW et al. against the causes that people like Roger hold dear.
In fact, some are being waged by people who are seeking a proper balance for privacy and traceability.
1Eyk15KEeYX9JwH8e98pqpX3kTUuY9d43C (622) ·
There are, in my opinion, four levels of information dispersion about individual's activities:
1) Anonymity
2) Privacy
3) Privacy from individuals but not institutions
4) No privacy at all
1Eyk15KEeYX9JwH8e98pqpX3kTUuY9d43C (622) ·
Digging into these issues, I think there are deep and irreparable problems with the "Anonymity" position. Individuals have no recourse against criminal acts, or in resolving legitimate disputes. This makes the Rothbardian society difficult to achieve!
1Eyk15KEeYX9JwH8e98pqpX3kTUuY9d43C (622) ·
However, when you enable the traceability that takes us from level 1) to level 2), immediately you introduce the possibility for others to dig into your actions and breach your privacy... So what actually prevents them from doing so?
1Eyk15KEeYX9JwH8e98pqpX3kTUuY9d43C (622) ·
What can provably lead to the defense of one's privacy in a traceable system, where the "third party doctrine" rules, where governments and large corporations alike seek to gain information about you as an individual for their personal power and profit?
1Eyk15KEeYX9JwH8e98pqpX3kTUuY9d43C (622) ·
Asked differently... What keeps you in level 2) rather than sliding into level 3) or 4)?
That, I believe, is economics... Make it costly to trace, make it costly to learn this information and link it to you as an individual.
1Eyk15KEeYX9JwH8e98pqpX3kTUuY9d43C (622) ·
This is the only way to ensure governments don't breach their own rules, (see NSA surveillance of Americans for example,) and the only way to promote real privacy.
So, how do you do this?
Make the system itself pseudonymous, and scale it up globally.
1Eyk15KEeYX9JwH8e98pqpX3kTUuY9d43C (622) ·
The bigger it is, the more transactions flowing per second, the more costly it is to do mass surveillance... And then, governments are forced to issue warrants because they need to limit their own expenditures of resources.
1Eyk15KEeYX9JwH8e98pqpX3kTUuY9d43C (622) ·
In this way, judges who issue those warrants are the filter through which the state decides the crime is bad enough to warrant the cost of the investigative activities, all without even thinking about it in those terms.
1Eyk15KEeYX9JwH8e98pqpX3kTUuY9d43C (622) ·
Call this what you will - a trojan horse, or just good money - I think it's the best way forward, and it cannot include deliberate attempts to break traceability because then you enable the destruction of much of what makes true privacy possible.
1Eyk15KEeYX9JwH8e98pqpX3kTUuY9d43C (622) ·
Anyways, I've just finished my rant and just realized I haven't tagged the Numpties themselves... So, @109 @4179 @2956 and @931, this thread is at least in part for you guys!
Now, to listen to more of the video!
1E25VBApDgCn4QqK72ZLzQdBNvWng5CVYo (2083) ·
Great thinking
1QAGfGqwKdi3HLArP2ahVDQUVcL4vnkuio (512) ·
57:00 - bch'ers realize BCH as cash substitute lost already with Apple Pay (and similar) and credit cards.