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Replying to Avatar Roger H

Today is June 4th, which marks the 36th anniversary of the Tiananmen Square Massacre. But you might not know why Tiananmen is still an enduring symbol of Internet repression.

Tiananmen was part of the reason I got into Bitcoin in the first place. I used to be part of commemorations of the event - I remembered that many of those who attended wore masks - afraid of agents of the Chinese state that would harass them and their family back home. I wondered about the dystopia of never having ease even 5000 miles away.

Tiananmen is still censored in the Chinese Internet, with even mentions of the date getting wiped off. This has led to a cat and mouse game where June 4th becomes May 35th and other variants to trick censors.

One of the first things the Chinese authorities did when they effectively took over Hong Kong was to ban public, non-violent rallies in Victoria Park in commemoration of the victims of Tiananmen.

One author has described his books as “June 4th” (China in Ten Words, non-fiction, banned in China) and “May 35th” (Brothers, fiction, not banned in China). Even today, to get literature or books published in China, you must strip away mentions of Tiananmen.

Tiananmen marked the crossroads between a faction of the Chinese Communist Party that wanted to grant more liberty and those who wanted to let markets run more broadly - at the cost of strict state control. That latter faction eventually led China to build the strongest version of Internet control possible - the Great Firewall that cleaves the Internet in two, and the same surveillance playbook of company, platform and government that now reigns as the default Bitcoiners and Nostriches fight against.

I’m happy to say that Nostr is one of a few pockets where open discussions like this can happen and that can actually cross borders throughout the world, backed by relays that can fortify this content how they choose - and that Bitcoin is playing its role to erode the systems of control that came partly because tanks met innocents that bloody day.

I don't get the hangup on this, is it just Chyna bashing? It's not like it's the only place that censors or punishes speech

And here the, the much smaller, void is filled to the brim with comments about Bitcoin.

Replying to Avatar L0la L33tz

Remember when I told you that under the Trump administration financial surveillance would go up, and you all called me a FUDster?

The IRS now plans on sharing confidential tax information with ICE and DHS to carry out deportations.

This practice is *not* unprecedented:

The systemic use of tax information and financial records is one of the practices majorly credited with enabling H*tler’s mass deportations of Jews beginning in 1938, enabling the 'industrialization' of the Holocaust.

If you think this is fine because you are legally in the US, remember that Trump is currently attempting to deport and revoke a student’s green card for organizing protests at Columbia University.

Last week, the administration deported at least two Venezuelan asylum seekers legally in the US to El Salvador’s terrorist detention center, known for torture and inmate deaths. Neither had a criminal record – the basis for their deportation were allegedly misidentified tattoos.

If you think this is fine because you are a US citizen, remember that last week, the Treasury announced that it would lower the currency reporting threshold in 30 counties along the Mexican border from $10,000 down to $200 in attempts to fight gang activity – affecting anyone living in the area.

Over the past weeks, we have additionally seen a drastic increase in using deportations to prosecute political speech. Four days ago, a French space researcher was denied entry to the US for messages critical of Trump, which the administration allegedly described as ‘terrorism’.

This is the *second* major increase in financial surveillance in the US in the last two weeks.

If history has taught us anything, it should be that fascism does not stop at the people you don’t like.

Please zap/share this post as wide and far as you can – It was shadow banned on the free speech LARP for using banned words.

https://www.therage.co/irs-shares-tax-data-with-ice-dhs-deportations/

I'm all for it, if it means they'll ramp up the deportations. Go Trump, go.

Sounds like a complicated way of saying yes

True, that said I'm never talking about that subject. Mainly just calling out gay and retarded shit