Message from @paradigm
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yeah - clearly, they are just out of business
lol
What are they doing?
I am not going to share that with you
And how will the US stand alone?
how will the US stand alone?
very easily, in this context
the US market is hundreds of millions, and the banking system works
infowars has a store and ads for revenue. if i were an asshat like jared holt or his censorious employer 'People For the American Way', that's what i would attack.
you need to look more carefully to understand
if alex jones is accepting credit card somewhere he's vulnerable. direct bank transfers are less vulnerable, but a giant pain in the ass for customers.
Sleeping Giants has pretty much killed the ad business for a lot of sites
ACH is pretty easy, if people are willing to set it up
but that's more for independent journalists than something like infowars
at the infowars scale, there are other options
It sounds like you're preparing for something far more radical than I'm talking about.
I am not preparing for anything radical
There are intermediary steps.
I simply have not accepted the blockchain as my personal lord and saviour
and ignored where inappropriate
It is an alternative to banks.
not today
Yes, today.
Silk Rd.
federal prison
not interested
One guy.
Onion router.
yeah - the one who set it up
not interested in being that guy
Will the dudes who designed Monero or whatever by locked up?
Do you think?
Gotta go.
Visitor.
I don't actually care if they are
hasta
> It sounds like you're preparing for something far more radical than I'm talking about.
I am in the United States.
Freedom of Speech is not radical here. It is a constitutionally guaranteed right.
... and we don't need a bunch of surveillance and control to enjoy it.
I suppose that actually is radical from the perspective of the EU or UK.
The lefty response to that is to say "the government isn't preventing you from saying anything".