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We refuse to be cowards.

"The Stasi in East Germany didn't just rely on secret police—they turned ordinary citizens into informants. By some estimates, one in seven East Germans was reporting on their neighbors, friends, even family members. The state didn't need to watch everyone; they got people to watch each other. But the Stasi had limitations: they could recruit informants, but they couldn't monitor everyone simultaneously, and they couldn't instantly broadcast transgressions to entire communities for real-time judgment.

Social media solved both problems. Now we have total surveillance capability—every comment, photo, like, and share automatically recorded and searchable."

https://stylman.substack.com/p/the-cowards-bargain

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zeph 6mo ago

Snitch energy traditionally is not virtuous so why did we build it into absolutely everything in web 2.0? Was web 1.0 so terrifying?

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=bRjr18X_Tts

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Shawn 6mo ago

It most definitely was not. The web was born full of incredible promise. Nostr is our opportunity to get it back.

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Marc Kat 6mo ago

I wholeheartedly agree.

This was a great article. It seems as if it should be an afterward to Edward Snowden's book, Permanant Record.

Nostr is the sequel.

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Shawn 6mo ago

Hear, hear!

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