And the demand is increasingly favoring Monero.
I swear by my life
And my love of it
That I will continue running a #tor node
Independent of any government’s approval
This is my chosen responsibility as a citizen of the #internet
https://www.whathacked.com/post/tor-trouble-government-targets-whistleblower
love it!
I used to buy coffee with on-chain transactions all the time up until 2017 when I left cryptocurrency entirely for five years because of the transaction fees.
I know nothing about C.A.D. software, but have you heard of Steam Onlinex? It's only been a thing for quite a while, and is very popular, and has a decent chunk of games.
URGENT: PROTECT YOUR PRIVACY COMMUNICATION RIGHT NOW!
on 4th Sept 2024 #ChatControl regulation representatives of EU goverments will resume work based on a secret document according to Patrick #Breyer, former Member of the European Parliament.
Help to mobilize everybody to defend our #privacy of communication and its developers, investors!
If no preventive actions from your side now, this regulation will be endorsed on 12/13 December 2024.
According to the draft regulation dated 28 May (Council document 9093/24), ChatControl deploys to do, for instance:
🔻 “upload moderation”, users of apps and services with chat functions are to be asked whether they accept the indiscriminate and error-prone scanning and possibly reporting of their privately shared images, photos and videos.
🔻Scan by “artificial intelligence” technology previously unknown images and videos;
🔻If a user refuses the scanning, they would be blocked from sending or receiving images, photos, videos and links (Article 10).
🔻End-to-end encrypted services such as Whatsapp or Signal would have to implement the automated searches “prior to transmission” of a message (so-called client-side scanning, Article 10a).
During the last discussion on 24 May, the Council Legal Service made it clear that indiscriminate chat control scanning of non-suspects is still envisioned and remains a violation of fundamental rights.
Nevertheless, most EU governments are determined to go ahead. https://netzpolitik.org/wp-upload/2024/05/2024-05-28_Council_Presidency_LEWP_CSAR_Compromise-texts_9093.pdf
🌎 Tell your goverment and parliamentarians, that the proposal should be rejected altogether!
🔴Is your government in favour?
→ Ask for an explanation and for your government to revert its course.
🟡Is your government abstaining?
→ Ask why and demand that they take a strong stance against chat control.
🟢Is your government opposing?
→ Great, but take a closer look at the reasoning: Some governments like #Germany e.g. only object to the scanning of encrypted communications, but are fine with the indiscriminate scanning of other private and public communication, with the end of anonymous communication by requiring age verification, or with introducing a minimum age for “risky” communication apps. Also critical governments need to do more, exert their influence in the Council of the EU and agree on a joint list of necessary fundamental changes to the proposal. Absent such revision they should ask the European Commission to withdraw the chat control proposal as it stands.
🔴 In favour of ChatControl: France, Belgium, Bulgaria, Croatia, Cyprus, Denmark, Finland, Greece, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malta, Portugal, Romania, Slovakia, Spain, Sweden.
🟡Abstained: Estonia, Netherlands, Slovenia, Czech Republic, Austria
🟢 Opposed the proposal: Germany, Poland
When reaching out to your government, the ministries of the interior (in the lead) of justice and of digitisation/telecommunications/economy are your best bet. You can additionally contact the permanent representation of your country with the EU: https://op.europa.eu/en/web/who-is-who/organization/-/organization/COREPER/
And if for some ungodly reason they succeed, do not use applications that obey these rules, use foreign applications that specifically decline to follow the rules and are therefore blocked.
All the time people write me and say:
"Hello! I want to buy your email, phones, or Linux support but I don't want to KYC to get crypto"
I reply, "But once you pull Monero or even Bitcoin Lightning off the exchange, it's not tied to you anymore. And there's no capital gains tax if you spent it at the same price." Then I suggest Haveno, and they don't feel comfortable doing that. And in the end, they end up doing nothing.
How does it make sense that you don't want to KYC just to get crypto, so you keep using KYC banks and cards?
Getting crypto is part of the experience for you to become private.
To say you want "privacy without crypto" is like saying you want to lose weight, but you're too lazy to walk up the entrance stairs of the gym. "Hello! I want exercise without strenuous stairs"
I try to make it as easy as possible for you. Here's my article on where to buy crypto, with different options for different countries including credit cards, peer-to-peer, and exchanges: https://simplifiedprivacy.com/crypto/index.html
That just goes to show you that those are the people who really don't care. They think they want privacy, but they're not willing to do a little extra work to get it.
Actually, I honestly don't think so. We, as people, don't think about a lot of things that we use. We just use them. Take cars, for example. Most people don't know how a car works, but they can drive one. Most people can't do pharmaceutical research, but once it has been done, they can fairly easily purchase the chemicals needed and do it themselves with the formulas.
And even lending isn't really that big of an issue. The primary problem is that people think they can take their deposit out while it's being lent. And that's just not the case. if all lending occured through CDs where you could not get your money out that would be alright
And even lending isn't really that big of an issue. The primary problem is that people think they can take their deposit out while it's being lent. And that's just not the case. if all lending occured through CDs where you could not get your money out that would be alright
Unless they've made a new version of that since I had one, that does not do 900 megahertz. That is a 2 meter and 70 centimeter or 144 megahertz and 440 megahertz radio.
that Monero was actually searched enough at one point to even show above 0 on a chart with national news topics
now now, you are not nostr:npub12yfv6csdkdktglkqldhmg934290m9agt7q8q649a2t8qm43ra3ys0k2656. nice try tho.
Well, see, that's the great thing. If you post an address for Monero, it doesn't matter because of the functionality Monero has to hide the sender, the receiver, and the amount received or sent.
Post a wallet address and I will send you a small tip.