I signed a petition yesterday. I never signed petitions before, because I don't believe petitions often achieve their stated goals. But I did it anyway, because I wanted to see the number on the signatory list to go up. I wanted the number of supporters of privacy to go up. So I signed it and the number went up by one. And then I sat there for half an hour watching the number go up every few seconds. And then it dawned on me that petitions like that achieve a different goal. They show support to me and to us. It's me who is seeing the number of supporters of Privacy growing and it gives me comfort. It reminds me that I am not alone in this world. That I'm not the only sane person that thinks Privacy is a norm, not an exception. I'm not the only sane person that sees Keonne and Bill are being unjustly jailed. They didn't break any existing law. There was no discovery of facts before jury. There were no victims presented to the court. There was no court of justice. There was a system established in such a way, that no due process is needed anymore to put someone in jail. Two people will be sitting in a cage, just because someone wanted them in a cage. I think it's wrong. I like that more people are saying out loud - "Hey, it's wrong!". I like this number go up. If you also like seeing this number go up, then you can make it go up by at least one:

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Stand Up for Freedom: Pardon the Innocent Coders Jailed for Building Privacy Tools!

Propaganda Filter for Search Engines. I noticed that I barely use Search Engines nowadays because whatever results are being shown on the first pages are typically coming from some organisations that I don't trust - cnn, bbc, reuters, wikipedia. It's all distorted propaganda, so why even use a Search Engine? But then on my last @BitcoinWalk an idea crystallized in my mind: A Propaganda Filter for all searches based on funding sources. Here's how it would work... We use LLM's to scan the websites of all known media outlets with an objective to find their source of funding. As was recently revealed, many of them are being funded either directly by organisations like USAID or by secondary NGO's who receive their funding from USAID first and then fund the media outlets second. So there will be a list of known funding organisations worldwide forming. There will also be a list of media outlets who received the funding from the known Propaganda pushers. These two lists are the basis for the Propaganda filter for the search engines. Every news outlet that is or was funded by known propaganda pushing organisations (USAID for example) gets categorized as Propaganda Media. Every news outlet which is NOT funded by such organisations gets categorized as an Independent Media. Basically - all the rest of the search results. It's a rudimentary filter and perhaps more thought has to be put into it to polish the idea, but so far it seems like an objective criteria. Whoever pays, drives the narrative. So why not categorize the known propaganda sources in advance and filter out their articles from our Search results by default? Use Cases: 1. Optional Propaganda filter for all searches. The individual can effectively shadow ban the lizard people media outlets in their own individual searches and enjoy original content created by Independent media sources. 2. AI summary of Propaganda narratives VS AI summary of Independent narratives. Perhaps, presented side by side on the screen for a clear comparison. Any trending subject will be easier to understand when you get a clear Propaganda funded narrative separated from the Independent narratives. 3. Identifying research and academic papers tainted with Propaganda funding. Comparison between Propaganda and Independent Research papers, like in point 2. 4. The Independent Media, Creators and Researchers will finally get the proper search ranking and the attention they deserve. 5. Ironically, the lack of Privacy regarding the source of funding or association/affiliation with the known NGO's will finally bite them in the ass, highlighting that all this radical transparency will eventually be used against them. Maybe the tide will start turning once they themselves suffer from the lack of Privacy online. Developers among you, what do you think? Is this doable? In any case, I'm summarizing my ideas inspired by walks in nature with fellow Bitcoiners. If you haven't joined your local Bitcoin Walk yet, what are you waiting for? Start building your web of trust in real life with your local Bitcoiners. Till next time.