What the British don't seem to understand is that there is no such thing as "encryption in the UK". If this bad law passes, everyone in the UK can still get Signal, WhatsApp and other tools from outside the UK, and there is nothing anyone can do about it. This has been going on for decades. Governments in totalitarian states masquerading as democracies countries like Britain and France have long conceded that GPG and SSL cannot be compromised without undermining eCommerce and banking, and so have quietly, grudgingly relented and shrunk away from trying to control those universal tools. Damien Green is famous for organising the unethical seizure of Facebook company documents: https://archive.is/wip/ikBWC and so any pretence that Britain is a democracy where the rule of law is in place is absurd on its face, as is the idea that there will be proper controls over who gets to look at private Signal messages. They can "seize" anything they like at any time, without a warrant, believe it or not. And then they BOAST about it:

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Damian Collins (@DamianCollins) on X

More next week - Parliament seizes cache of Facebook internal papers https://t.co/129OkaGe7k

No one in their right mind believes any assurances given by any State when it comes to self control about reading other people's messages. That's just one aspect. The other aspect is this. No American company will cripple their software at the behest of the Saudi Arabian government. They will continue to make their apps available unrestricted and unfettered, and there is nothing anyone anywhere can do about it. As long as this is true, anyone anywhere on earth can install an unmodified copy of Signal, and it will not be possible for any State to control the billions of people who are using those apps. It will not be possible for them to know that the apps are being used at all. The world has changed, and gentlemen like Damien Green are having a hard time coming to terms with it. All the arguments they're able to mount to do with porn and other bad things have been used for decades without any effect. Anyone can Google the Crypto Wars and see that the arguments are exactly the same today as they were in the past. Read this which deals with this subject from 1985. There is even a physiognomic clone of Gargoyle Gary Gensler taking the side of censorship and fear mongering. https://medium.com/@beautyon_/bitcoin-parallels-from-1985-1cb70ca130a4 If the British pass this law, all it will do is further impoverish the people there. They've already all but extinguished Bitcoin businesses in the UK; they're going to make sure that no one starting any sort of business running on the prerequisite of unbroken encryption software or the Bitcoin chain of blocks considers Britain, not even as a bad joke. America (even with its serious problems) and new Super Contestant entrants like El Salvador will continue to hoover up all the software talent of the world, allow people to launch secure and strong services, and there is nothing INGSOC can do about it. All they can do is make impotent gestures like this scabrous, scandalous, toxic bill that no one will obey and that will cause all developers to run to Heathrow. The fact of the matter is that these entrepreneurs fleeing Britain will be going to places that have large pools of talent made up of fellow escapees from all over the world, who have moved to where the work and innovation are. If there is no innovation in Britain, no one will set up companies there and no one will be hired there. Everything will move to free countries. Once the seeds are planted in other countries, it will be nearly impossible to coax entrepreneurs to "Move to Silicon Roundabout" without getting laughed out of the room: https://medium.com/swlh/priti-patel-is-wrong-about-encryption-5bbfaab62cc1 Britain is finished as a possible "International Tech Hub". They did it to themselves, refuse to take proper advice, and now everyone is leaving. The very fact that this bill is even being discussed is stopping people from considering anything there. So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish!

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Big Brother Watch (@BigBrotherWatch) on X

⌛️We're running out of time to save encryption in the UK. This tech keeps our conversations secure, but the #OnlineSafetyBill includes powers ...

“PWA”? Oh, you mean “GAB”! Andrew Torba’s Gab; years ahead of the pack in execution, front end and back end infrastructure. No one will say this because they thing Gab is a service for bad people. It isn’t, and everyone can learn from Gab’s struggles which overlap perfectly with Damus and other victims of Apple’s TOS.

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“a gift that is *connected to or associated at any point in time* with receiving digital content or services must use in-app purchase” This means when users start saying “zap me with your email to receive my art”. Then this would give apple an excuse remove Damus at any time, even with only profile zaps. This is true of every p2p payment app as well from what I can tell. Not to mention: “100% of the funds go to the receiver of the gift”. So what about miner fees? Apple could argue miner tx fees on bitcoin txs violate their guidelines. This also means damus splits + support star are very much not allowed and they won’t be pushed to the app store 🥲 Overall everything is very vague which gives apple the ability to remove your app for any reason. Fun This is not true. What it actually means s that in the TOS, you need to specify exactly what the context of a Zap is; that it is a mere gift, and is in no way to be construed as payment for anything whatsoever. That should be enough to be compliant with this Apple Rule. Users are at liberty to use Damus for whatever they want, even for purposes outside of the Damus TOS. Apple is concerned only with what the incorporation that owns Damus (is there even one?) is doing in its relationship with its users, not the private arrangements users make between themselvs. Furthermore, the fact that mining taks place for a fee cannot (and probably won’t) be construed as anything to do with the act of sending a Zap. This is like saying Apple will claim that because you pay for ISP/Cellphone service fees, or monthly payment on your phone, or electricity, with a credit card that charges you a fee, that using Bitcoin is, “A violation of their guidelines”. Clearly this is totally absurd, and would mean that the other payment methods which certainly attract fees to get things done, would fall afoul of Apple’s rules meaning that their language makes no sense. The guideline is this; don’t put on the layer’s hat unless you’re a lawyer or have experience in interpreting a TOS and its terms. If you don’t have a lawyer, get one. No, ChatGPT cannot act as your lawyer. If you’re serious about launching and running a world changing app, and you’ve been funded, you really should have a competent, high power law firm with many international offices and with expertise in this area at your disposal. And NO the EFF is not good enough.

Thinking adversarially is a good thing. You might think, "We've got into the App Store, and hyuk hyuk we got AI to write our TOS and application; WE'RE WINNING! LET'S GOOOOOOO!". That's all well and good, but are you thinking adversarially? Do you see every step of your process as just an item on your checklist to be ticked off? Have you considered, "What happens to our users if our app goes away from iOS for any reason? If you think adversarially, you might hold the following: "Look at what happened to Andrew Torba and Gab. Because his platform allows people to say whatever they want that is legal speech, Apple and Google won't allow his client to be distributed. We need to construct something that allows our users to move their entire accounts as a blob to another platform in a snap (no, not Ubuntu, clever man) so that our users can never be cut off. We should perhaps abandon the idea of a native app entirely and launch a Progressive Web App like Gab did that will run on any device no matter what Apple or Google says." Perhaps this, given the "Censorship Resistance" mindset to Nostr people should have been the position from the start. Because Andrew Torba and Gab are pariahs amongst many they would not (if they even know any of Gabs architecture woes) have sought to emulate him lest they and Nostr be associated with "Gab Ethics" (free speech). The answer to Nostr client on iOS and Google Play is to go 100% Progressive Web App. Andrew Torba I'm sure would be willing to help with the design, saving developers many hours and tears of frustration. Why continue to beg like Plebs when you can write software and be totally free? Gab has resisted the German and French governments successfully and others. No one can ban their app or have any control over them whatsoever. The App Store and Google Play are SPOFs that can damage the short term ability to use Nostr; why wait for the hammer to come down? Do it now. Turn your back on relying on the behemoths and begging like peasants. If you don't know anything about Gab, you should learn about it and their battles that they've won very astonishingly and bigly. Or not!

People in Bitcoin would do well to understand what the word "Jurisdiction" means. If a court and legislatures in Afghanistan or Saudi Arabia outlawed Bitcoin, all the huffing and puffing ignorant Ugly Americans wouldn't be clutching their pearls about it, but if it is Britain that does it, all of a sudden, THIS IS A HUGE ATTACK ON RIGHTS! Americans don't understand their own country, why it is special and why the judgements of backwards countries like Britain simply don't count for much to anyone who can actually THINK. If Britain never ever used Bitcoin forever and the rest of the world settled on it, what on earth do you think 67.33 million people not using Bitcoin compared to 7.888 BILLION people in terms of difference of outcome would make? The real question is this; do you have ANY APPRECIATION OF ANY KIND OF THE SCALE IF THE POPULATION OF THE EARTH? Do you know what the difference between a BILLION people and A MILLION PEOPLE is? If you do, you don’t care a HOOT about what silly little Britain decides to do about Bitcoin; the world is an absolutely HUGE PLACE with literally BILLIONS of people on it. If Bitcoin served only ONE SEVENTH of the world’s population, it would be 117.15 times as many people than are in Britain, and there are TWO BILLION unbanked so the number is probably three times 117.15, taking into account everyone else who will be onboarded. People like to whine and go into panic mode about tiny little inconsequential places that go anti-Bitcoin, but the reality is the situation is EXTREMELY POSITIVE for anyone WHO HAS A GLOBE IN THEIR HOUSE and who knows how to COUNT. You people need to GROW UP and stop HYPERVENTILATING about problems that are literally NOTHING compared to the big picture. We are going to WIN THIS, and there is NOTHING ANYONE CAN DO ABOUT IT, if we keep calm, carry on, incorporate wisely, spread Bitcoin as fast as possible to both the richest and poorest and… LAY OFF THE FUD BOTTLE!

If you haven’t read this book, you should. https://mises.org/library/new-liberty-libertarian-manifesto

The money is the key to the empire. Anyone can make promises. If the money doesnt change, the system can reboot itself. A Socialist can’t fix anything. No one should be forced to wait for other people to figure things out. Trust no one. Especially politicians. Doubly so for Socialists. Bitcoin is everything to do with the required change. Principles matter. They’re everything. Violence is always wrong. This is 2023 not 1963.

I'm afraid that RFK is not going to be the White Knight to save America from the Federal Reserve and restore order through Bitcoin. He has just explicitly said he is not for the end of the Federal Reserve. Anyone putting their hopes into RFK is going to be disappointed, just like they were with Barack Huesein Obama. It’s pretty obvious to see, and now, since RFK has all but openly rejected the death of the US dollar (which is inevitable, thanks to math) you can expect a theoretical RFK regime to do evertything it can to prop up (or by inaction, prop up) the fiat scam. The only chance America has is GEPOTUS who could be persuaded to pivot to Bitcoin to Keep America Great as the worlds number one financial capital. He will know that killing the dollar (or letting it die and then feigning innocence) means erasing the debt to China and other countries, making it the final blow of the dollar weapon, and freeing America to grow its economy on Bitcoin. Re-Launching the US Dollar will be next to impossible if every American is already using Bitcoin internally and globally. Anyone with a brain cell can see this, and the answer is obvious. RFK will not be nominated by the Democrats. If he is, he can't win with his explicit and explosive record of Socialist ideas, the idea that he is a member of America's Royal Family, and that intolerable voice. Add to this is open oppozition to "Big Pharma" who GEPOTUS actually believes in, and the choice of the Crony Capitalists is clear; Donald John Trump is a far less disruptive and risky POTUS than a theoretical RFK. If RFK offered that he was going to obey his oath of office and back off from regulating Bitcoin, you could imagine holding your nose for that reason alone, since Bitcoin can save America from its evil govenment, but now that that is off the table, there is no reason whatsover to accept his proposition. https://twitter.com/Beautyon_/status/1665802276462645248?s=20

You should watch every Thomas Sowell video you can find.

The difference between real people and fake people. The difference between real ideas and borrowed ideas. The difference between original thinking and cooycats. Know it. Hear it. Feel it.

———- BEGIN CULT RULES ———- Embrace Marginalization. Giggle. Encourage Snobbery. Deny Capitalism. Ignore Reality. Othering. Activate Anomie. Believe Lies. Normalise Infantilism. Shun Empathy. Impoverish. Invigorate Isolationism. Inculcate Fatalism. Ignore History. ———- END CULT RULES ———-

AUSTERE. AUSTERITY. FIAT ARCHITECTURE.

SCIENCE FACT. https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FwAh5JzWcAIt9M1?format=jpg

SCIENCE FACT. https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FwAh5JzWcAIt9M1?format=jpg&name=large

TWENTY ONE THOUSAND…US DOLLARS.

SHIVERS AND TINGLING ALL OVER!