cuz the western world is still too free

give it time, it will erode and you'll have China levels of control if we don't reverse it

We'd complain if they do it, start riots etc

Well I would prefer supporting alternatives *now* than rejecting them in the hope that the situation deteriorates to the point we have to resort to pitchforks (literally).

IPFS is torrents + detailed analytics

Point being,

I'd love it if it works, but its based on the assumption that only one of the factions "evolves" its technology

which simply is too big a risk for me

blockchain = audit trail

I agree that a blockchain is an audit trail.

That's why we need to support decentralised blockchains.

Because teh state will get its grubby paws on blockchain.

Why do you think they are allowing it to survive for now.

cuz they don't see it as a threat

neither do i

it it just me that gets confused thinking they are on a bdsm server because of the name before they remember whos server this is?

There may be no threshold at which normies start rioting against Chinese-level censorship. The reasonable response to Apple/ADL imposing Chinese-level censorship on Apple customers would be to torch Apple stores.

No. They are allowing the open source community to innovate, and they will plagiarise those innovations and make all of this censorship look like absolutely nothing.

blockchain is also irrelevant to freedom
and potentially counter-productive

Well it's coming, like it or not.

exactly, they don't see it as a threat

They see it as the ultimate tool.

they = who ?

Blockchain fetishism is counter-productive, sure.

Which is what it is.

yes, until we find another way around

The state.

government/globalists/authoritarians/state

agreed re state - and also banking / globalists

The state will adopt the blockchain and censor/monitor every single transaction you make.

until we find....

And then it's all over.

we've had it for ages

But right now you talk like a guy who wants to sell me bitcoins,

"Its the future"
"Its gonna be great"
"Its safe"
"Where will you be when the market crashes?"

Visa is not the state.

we just invested billions in web 2.0 to kill it

^ literal statement, not figurative

I'm a guy who doesn't care if you buy what I've got or not. I'm prepared to lsoe money.

```Dudes. You need to start supporting crypto. As a political donation, if nothing else.```

That's the point.

sounds like a sales pitch to me

I don't carte if you buy *what I've got*.