2000-2016 was the era of big data, the promise of tech companies adding value and efficiency. The only cost was your privacy.

Trump's election kicked the hornet nest and started a neverending wave a banhammers and adpocalypse. The covid madness just continued that wave of hate and censorship into the real world. It's now obvious where big data leads to: Chinese style digital totalitarianism and our lives ran by the AI algos.

The emergence of bitcoin and decentralized protocols like nostr is the answer to that dystopian future. Protect your data. Protect your privacy. Starve the beast.