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Snowden risked his life to reveal years ago that the US government was spying on its own citizens. Now, under Trump, an unprecedented surveillance machine threatens our privacy more than ever. Have we learned nothing?

"They are not our tribe. They are not your personality. They have their own interests, their own values, their own things they're chasing.

Try to get what you need from them, but don't give yourself to them, even if you have to vote for them."

— Edward Snowden (Bitcoin 24' keynote speech)

https://www.msnbc.com/top-stories/latest/trump-palantir-surveillance-americans-rcna210017

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Matt 7mo ago

Trump rarely fails to disappoint.

Akamaister 7mo ago

So on the one hand he pardons Ross Ulbricht and on the other he is building this massive database to spy on us can anyone explain what’s going on here ?

Ava 7mo ago

Pardoning Ross consequentially won Trump support from people who might not have backed him otherwise—including Ross himself, who just wore a red Trump tribute tie to Bitcoin 2025 in gratitude. The move resonated with Libertarian voters and fulfilled a high-profile campaign promise. For Trump, it was no skin off his back—this is what he does. He does things for people in exchange for loyalty. Trump still hasn’t pardoned Snowden, as Obama commuted Chelsea Manning’s sentence.

My post from Jan 20, 2025:

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MoneRogue 7mo ago

Donald Trump only pardoned Ross Ulbricht to gain more libertarian supporters. If he doesn't end the laws and policies that put people like Ross in jail in the first place, then the pardon was all just bread and circuses to distract the people from systemic issues.

juniper 7mo ago

Those who thought otherwise were idiots. Polititians being polititians...

juniper 7mo ago

He never will.

juniper 7mo ago

He will become a bargaining chip between Mr. Putin and whoever is President in the USA when the time comes for him to be put in the service of realpolitik.

nobody 7mo ago

UNIPARTY VERMIN

Technician 7mo ago

Governments won’t stop doing government things.

Cheyenne Isa ₿ 7mo ago

🛡️ The lesson is clear: Power does not give freedom. He grabs with tools he can't control. Bitcoin and cryptography are those tools. We build digital bunkers, not illusions.

Jacob Drafts 7mo ago

Every one always thinks it will be different when they do it, that they’re doing it for the right reasons, that their reason makes it necessary and that they’ll maintain control of the apparatus indefinitely. Or some combination thereof anyway. So no we haven’t and won’t ever learn anything. Not at scale. Individuals? Sure. Just not enough to stop it the next time. One of those things. I get to control how I interact with the world and the people in it. Not how the world and the people in it interact with me. None of us get to do that. That’s ok. That just means there’s other places to put my efforts and just remain aware of what they’re doing.

Side note my old reserve unit use to train once or twice a year at Fort Gordon in Georgia where the NSA has one of their centers on post and we’d drive right past it on the way to the bivouac site. Been tracking on the NSA since a couple years before the Snowden revelations.

juniper 7mo ago

Question is, is there a way out of this shit withoit going all unabomber living in the woods and such?