Today I was attending a lecture about blockchain and cryptocurrencies and the lecturer said that freedom and safety don’t go together. You can have more freedom by abandoning safety. Would you agree?

  • OceanSoap@lemmy.ml
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    2 天前

    If you pay attention to politics, you’ll start seeing a pattern of “we’re keeping you safe” as an excuse to rob you of your freedoms. This really ramped up in the USA after 9/11. It’s when spying on Americans by our own government became legalized. We were afraid, and we gave up some freedoms for the idea of safety.

    …and now we know we’re no more safe than we were before.

    • UngratefulLilToad@feddit.orgOP
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      2 天前

      So doesn’t the problem lie within regulations? Maybe they could just be better adjusted to the society? In decentralised solutions you also rely on “someone” that decides about the group, but different thing would be with distributed solutions.