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I’ve thought for a long time that it would be very easy for the ruling elite to identify and eliminate threats to their systems of control.

Step one would be to create a honeypot that seems like a legitimate grassroots movement. Examples of this could very well include such things as #wikileaks, #Bitcoin, and #nostr.

Step two is to sit back and allow all the dissidents to flock around these false freedom technologies and reveal themselves.

Step three is usual cloak and dagger stuff whereby the core dissidents are slowly and selectively silenced.

As much as I love #bitcoin and #nostr, I do have to keep such things in mind. Yes, the technology is open source but using them is not fully anonymous unless extreme precautions are undertaken.

The threat to the current financial system and global elite that true freedom money and speech represents all but guarantees that big brother is watching and closely entwined with it all.

I personally view the situation as one where something is better than nothing though, which is where the world was before #bitcoin and #nostr. So yeah, even if these are just honeypots designed to identify and entrap people who are anti-government, at least it provides some kind of platform for people to learn about the flaws with the current system and a benchmark by which to measure other available options for money and communication.

While most people will continue to choose captivity over choice, I am still grateful for the chance to experience some degree of freedom when it comes to money and speech in my lifetime.

#thinkdangerously
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Nostralian 2y ago

I've had similar thoughts myself. I think we tend to credit the powers that be with a greater intelligence than they deserve. They are great at protecting their own power and enriching themselves, but probably not creating a honeypot trap of such magnitude. They would also risk those attracted by the trap becoming a threat to them, gathering your enemy together and allowing them to see they are not a minority would be dangerous.

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Not my name 2y ago

Agreed and I do think it’s less likely that #bitcoin and #nostr would have been created by the state for the reasons you suggest.

#Wikileaks to me though has always been very suspicious. Especially since any information that has been successfully shared was of absolutely no real consequence (think Panama papers saying rich people don’t pay taxes, Snowden saying we are all being watched, etc). None of it was in the least bit surprising but could certainly have been an attempt to create legitimacy among other actual whistleblower targets.

And as much as it would suck to be Ed #Snowden if he were legitimate, I can definitely imagine a world in which he remains a very active intelligence asset.

Not sure how my Saturday became conspiracy Saturday, but here I am nonetheless. :)