what’s wrong with simple cryptographic signatures?
why do I need a block chain?
you should know i am earnest. i’m learning how to snark. i try to say what i mean and mean what i say.
sometimes i do try to make jokes, but I am not sarcastic.
what’s wrong with simple cryptographic signatures?
why do I need a block chain?
laws don’t stop crime. they create it.
this is incoherent with what i said.
no, laws make criminals.
since there have been laws there have been criminals.
if the law says what assange did was wrong, the law is wrong.
free people have a duty regarding unjust laws.
it’s overreach to create a false pretext for a war. it’s overreach to murder journalists. it’s overreach to cover it up. and it’s overreach to prosecute the journalists who expose it.
>Any suffering he had was his own doing.
no. this is a problem of government overreach.
yes, he is.
>Where did I say it was okay
you didn’t. I asked if that is what you are saying.
this is exactly why section 230 exists. sites aren’t responsible for what other people post and they are allowed to moderate however they want.
i’m sorry. where are we going with this? are you suggesting it’s ok to let corporations and governments compile databases of information on people, and that surveillance is not, itself, a form of oppression?
the law that protected concerted organizing activity is the same that took the teeth out of the unions. i want to see that law abolished, but i’m an anarchist, so i want them all gone.
that’s not really the same as having a database full of people and all the information at your fingertips.
and how many government agencies could access that database with a simple letter?
that doesn’t make me feel any better about having governments and their constructs (corporations) looking over my shoulder.
concerted organizing activity is protected under the law. talking about it with your boss yourself is not organizing activity. talking about it with a coworker in front of your boss is.
this is what a job journal is for. it would prove what happened.
i didn’t hear that one, but boy have i heard it about voting for jill stein.
>I’m also not a believer that all oppression can/should be eliminated
… i’m an anarchist. so that’s like my raison d’être
do you trust the person who signed it? if not, dont fucking trust it.
what more needs to be done?