Ross. Julian. Two men. Two stories. One system that tried to crush them. Ross Ulbricht built a marketplace that challenged the war on drugs and government control. He didn’t kill. He didn’t steal. He wrote code and for that, he got double life plus 40 years. Julian Assange published truths the world wasn’t supposed to see. War crimes. Lies. Corruption. For that, they caged him. They didn’t break the system. They exposed it. And the system responded as it always does with fear and brute force. But now they’re free. Ross is finally out after more than a decade in prison. Assange is no longer in isolation. And guess what? @Ross Ulbricht is on Nostr. The place that can’t be censored. The network that reflects the spirit of the people they tried to silence. This is a moment to remember. Not just for them but for all of us who still believe in truth, freedom, and the right to build. asknostr Now that they’re free… how do we make sure this never happens again? #FreeRoss #FreeAssange #RossOnNostr #TruthIsNotACrime #CodeIsNotACrime #Cypherpunk #DecentralizeEverything #EndTheDrugWar #Wikileaks #Bitcoin #Nostr #AskNostr image

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Ross Ulbricht is nothing like Assange. Being imprisoned for dealing drugs is nothing like being imprisoned for journalism. You could have mentioned Snowden who is still living in exile You could have mentioned alleged WikiLeaks contributor Joshua Schulte serving a 40 year sentence in a facility where his windows are blacked out and a white noise machine blasts outside his cell so he can't shout through the door
I agree that they were imprisoned for different reasons. Journalism is different from coding and creating a marketplace. The thing that united them was the fact that they were unjustly detained. Who for one reason and some for another. Assange is a hero. Nothing and no one is and will be like Julian. But even Ross has unjustly served a ten-year plan. Freedom to freedom ✊
Creating a marketplace for hard drugs and hitmen isn't anywhere near the same realm as doing journalism The reality is Ross probably shouldn't be free after getting involved with hitmen, but all the people serving life sentences for dealing drugs should be free
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nix 9 months ago
It is happening again right now in Europe. Reiner Fuelmich, a lawyer who was working on a big lawsuit to prosecute states for their COVID response, is in prison on trumped up charges which break standard court procedure like they did with Assange. Calin Georgescu is an ex-UN Special Rapporteur turned whistleblower, who exposed Agenda2030 and organised pedophilia among other things in an interview with Reiner Fuellmich. https://rumble.com/v3jc6h8-un-whistleblower-clin-georgescu.html He won the first round in the presidentials elections in Romania, only to get imprisoned and banned from running again.
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An0myl0u5 9 months ago
Please Follow me, collaborate, share, zap, boost whatever. If we delude ourselves into thinking BTC and some messenger service is our saviour somehow, then you might as well zap me all your sats now, I can assure we are nearing the point of BTC being absolutely useless. Not the other way round. Do you think silk road would be possible in smart cities? Do you understand the logistics Industry? How are packages sent, delivered, recorded and managed through the system? Nothing is private. And its about to get 100X worse. Do you think this Tor and nostr feed is in anyway actually private? Is viewable by anyone, reveals your IP and relies on military Protocols to obfuscate your I.d e.g TOR. Who invented Tor and why? Who controls the exit nodes? Fly by wire decryption is a law for ISPs I England. NOTHING is private. Is there a solution? What good is private money in those conditions? People here seem to be fearful of trying to build any solution. Maybe they just want this and BTC to facilitate this nasty CP shit that keeps spamming the relays. Because they certainly don't want to step up and solve societal issues. It's like kids who fear the class bully. They made up their own language so they can communicate (things like nostr t.g etc.). Sooner or later bully figures it out anyway. They made up their own money so the school bully couldn't keep taking their lunch money. Problem is they can only swap amongst themselves, the school dinner ladies don't accept their private money. When they want to complain they hide away, behind the bike shed speaking their own language, talking about what they would do if they were brave enough as if it makes any difference in the real world. Here comes the bully walking across the playground and there you are hiding behind some Tor relay. The bully still mocks your made up language, even adopts it himself to disempower you. The bully still takes your fake lunch money that the dinner ladies don't accept. The bully is still inventing fake money, billing tour future grandkids for it. Spending the next 100 years of your kids money on fake wars. Locking people up for mean tweets. Committing GENOCIDE on a scale never seen before and television it. Gaslighting you every single step of the way. What good did bitcoin and private relays and onions do you? NONE!! what good will it do in the future!?.. EVEN LESS!! GOVERNANCE IS THE PROBLEM, GOVERNANCE IS THE SOLUTUON!! Be realistic about the way the world works people. BTC gives you NO privacy NO power and NO control. An0myl0u5.chain #DePol