I don't seek privacy.

I know that some of you do, and I want to support that, but I don't need it. I have a DNS record that ties an IP address to my legal name. Anything done by that IP address is, well, obviously me. If relays on nostr can associate my public key with my IP address, I really don't give a flying fuck. I am not engaging in illegal behavior (at least not knowingly) and I will happily comply with law enforcement should they think that I am. Trying to protect myself from all possible outcomes is I think a sign of paranoia. YES the government is wrong sometimes and oppressive sometimes and who knows what might happen. The general trends are worrying. But I address that by pushing for change, and by producing legal technology that helps push for change.

I understand some of you are fighting against evil top down systems of oppression via fiat currencies, and in doing so you are making yourselves targets, and are being anonymous so you can fight harder. That's fine, and I'll support privacy where I can. But this is not my personal battle. My battle is for free speech, a battlefield on which I don't have to be anonymous to fight with full ferocity.

So please appreciate the work I put into helping you maintain your privacy (gossip security, gossip relay privacy controls, etc) because I didn't need any of that for myself, that was 100% for you guys. And in doing so, don't mock my opsec or belittle my client just because it doesn't do things exactly the way you think it should do things.

it is also my policy that i don't do anything to where i would have to kill myself if i got caught doing it, because i believe there is always a risk that no matter what the precautions i might get caught.

anything we do we may be judged for or punished for but there are some things so wrong that if we got caught doing them NOBODY would have sympathy for us, and my policy is to not do those things, because no matter how low the risk of getting caught the price would be more than i can afford.

an example of what not to do is a doctor who was diagnosing healthy people with cancer just to make money by putting them on chemotherapy. i don't care how much money he made i can guarantee you he regrets it now.

even George Bush probably regrets doing 911 because he really withered after that under the stress.

so my policy is just assume you could be caught. obviously try not to get caught but assume that it could happen and don't do anything where if you got caught you wouldn't be able to bear the shame.

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