People often don’t realise when their freedoms are being slowly stripped away—it’s the perfect boiling frog analogy.

Elon Musk’s unchecked power and influence clearly show the danger of centralised control.

Protocols like Nostr offer a way to challenge. Decentralisation is essential to holding the powerful accountable.

I don’t agree with everything The Guardian says, particularly their reliance on government intervention, but it’s a start.

Thank you to everyone working in Bitcoin and Nostr so we don’t let the gradual erosion of freedom go unnoticed—before it’s too late.

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/article/2024/aug/30/elon-musk-wealth-power

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I'm inclined to agree re. The Guardian's approach for more regulation is flawed imo but it's important to recognise Musk wants the power that governments currently have to enact his vision on the world.

For me the solution is to leave Musk in a room on his own and live my online life elsewhere all together. I wonder how many people will join us?

Such small peen energy, that Robert Reich

I don't know. Personally, I believe you can look on this in two ways.

A self-proclaimed free-speech absolutist being a free-speech absolutist, and this is wrong, because it leads people to act on volition. The zeitgeist of the algo. The other way is that we start sentences with "According to a new report from the Center for Countering Digital Hate.." or "In the UK, far-right thugs.." but not a grain of contextualization from the light of those that would object to far-left that are now redefining words to encompass meaning that extends to suit the sensitivities and whims of tyrants. Basically, Musk and The Guardian are the perfect counterbalance to each other.

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