the excuses blue checks make about their verification compliance will sound very similar to those made about CBDCs - it is a teaser of what is to come

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Nostr will prevail. And, we will filter out undesirable persons, which is the power of decentralized social media.

The end user controls the experience

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The power of decentralisation is you cannot filter out anything. That's a big plus, a must.

Yes but the protocol allows the end user to choose what content they see.

Both auspices are beautiful

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It's what happens when people don't establish the line in the sand ahead of being assaulted. They'll keep letting their masters take an inch, and another and another until they have nothing left.

60% of America with 400$ to their name needs to get into distributed ledger technology somehow.

"I meant to buy it for the TFTC account"

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“I need it for work” is the global excuse for accepting all forms of authoritarianism

Recommendation: change jobs! I’ve done it several times over my career, and never regretted it.

The Blue Virtue Society is in full swing indeed..

Sad but true

I sell most of the books I translated via Twitter adverts (much better and cheaper than other SM or Google).

Find it kinda ridiculous that on top of all that money spent there I also need to pay for the blue check.

And if I change profile pic my ads get suspended for two weeks.

So you're not signing up for your $10,000 stimulus cheque? A lot will have too, as the rent will go up the following month.

And that's just the carrot side of coercion. On the stick side there is control of movement without a CBDC account. One example: traveling OS could be limited by requiring a passport that can only renewed with CBDCs in your name, or a departure tax that needs to be paid.