To convince me to get with the times you need to demonstrate you have a mechanism of maintaining an ability to transact in a digital age without interference form government or corporations

If the government stays the fuck out, the market adjusts. It always has. It always will.

Monopolies don't exist in reality its multiple corporations marching in lock step like all ISPs in Australia temp banning 4chan after the NZ shooting

Until then, you're just making shit emotive arguments

Yep.

Cashless does mean easier tracking

At the moment it does, PeP

And you and I both know it

And what happened @Samaritan™ ? We all got VPN services.

But that will cut down on money laundering, tax avoidance etc

Stop making shit accusations of ludditism and demonstate competence

I guess your right @Scale_e

I do honestly wonder how long it will be before VPN's are outlawed in all first-world nations

What? Lmao

And there! That’s it right there!
Government steps in and bans vpns?
You’ll get real monopolies.

If VPNs are outlawed people will move to illegal ones

If the government stays out, the market adjusts.

If VPNs where outlawed it'd just vindicate Scale_es anti regulation position

^

They have been trying to outlaw VPNs in the UK

As well as trying to push for Internet ID

That shit should have you marching in the streets.

In a way, they were already a monopoly. If a government controls the actions of numerous companies, the companies vie for control of the government as recompense. They have no choice but to go prisoner's dilemma.
And so the oligarchy is formed.

That’s worth burning down parliament for

It won't, because people like PureEvilPie supprt the move

Well, pep is big gay.

It's not something you get rid of easily

They become cartels, indeed, Lios.

@Eccles That kind of internet control is the most pressing concern of our time

^

It'd spell the end to opposition to the mainstream narrative as we know it

And because of misplaced desire for unregulated capitalism, it will become reality, Sam

Because corporations will push for it

Samaritan™ Today at 7:54 AM
"If VPNs where outlawed it'd just vindicate Scale_es anti regulation position"

His position is vindicated on a daily basis, minute by minute, second by second, spanning back to the dawn of human civilization.

And PeP-like normies will clap it and cheer it's coming

It's going to happen in the EU first I think as they are comparatist

And have already talked about doing so

Is someone saying there an Ancap?

It all depends on how far back you are willing to defend your human instinct to force.
If someone wants to take something from you, how far are you going to go to defend it?

hm well in my CoO weve only had any alternatives to mainstream accepted by the mainstream 30 years ago