“There are none more hopelessly enslaved, than those who falsely believe they are free.” - Goethe
Today we are able to use cryptography to claim, assert and reinforce our sovereignty and human rights like never before in hundreds of years. And we do this by using the magic of numbers that can only be used defensively not offensively and it is the most awesome power available at present that is able to rival even the power of the state. Totalitarian governments cannot brute force our crypto keys. Individuals can assert their power at last and this facility is certainly not possible in many other ways any more. For us to be able to assert our human rights like we can with blockchain and crypto is rare today and therefore really to be treasured.
Unstoppable code or uncensorable speech is a very powerful thing and more necessary than ever in today’s world. Here we have the blockchain where we can voice our true feelings and we cannot be stopped. Once it’s on the blockchain, no government can remove, censor or edit our words. How rare is that? Especially as we now see the rise of totalitarianism, not just in China, the obvious dictatorship, but even in the west, albeit more subtly for now.
For example there are some states in America where it is a crime to criticize the human rights abuses and crimes of Israel. In other words you have been muzzled there in your whistle blowing, or any outcry you wish to make against an obvious oppressor and Apartheid regime bent on outright genocide in their biggest open air concentration camps in the world, called Gaza and the West Bank. These crimes against humanity need to be called out for what they are but America is so in the pocket of Zionism that the most powerful nation on earth is a sock puppet totally beholden to them. The land of the free and the home of the brave is no longer free for you to be brave. You can try to speak out but you will lose your job, be seen as a criminal with a record or even go to jail - for telling the truth. However, on the blockchain here on this platform, I can call a spade a spade and fear no reprisal or risk of censorship in my expression. And in my country of South Africa we have a particular dislike of Apartheid regimes and categorically demand the two state solution for Palestine, as our official government policy.
When have we ever had such a sense of freedom of speech? People all over the world have the tools now to express their rights and to be sovereign. It is our last stronghold. This is power to the people. The only problem is it seizes power from those in power who would oppress or exploit us – governments, corporations or big faceless institutions like the United Nations, another front for the New World Order Illuminati takeover of the planet by the elite 0.1% who like to think themselves god’s gift to creation. In fact it is only about 4000 people who actually control the entire western world, besides China for now, and hopefully Russia still. This cabal or nefarious group has been plotting for centuries and are in the process of playing their final trump card to sweep up the planet in their net and hold it in their grasp, every nation and citizen on this planet, all of us, under one rulership, a tyrannical one. The UN, the Council on Foreign Relations, the Bilderberg Group, these are the NWO elite that plan to cull the population, or at least cut it back to 500 000 000, from the current 7 billion, while they run it like an Orwellian animal farm or centralized Communist party along the lines of China and its social credit score with RFID chip implants and cameras to track us all.
Blockchain takes power from these elites and gives it to the little people. And at some point they will start fighting back. At that point we will see how unstoppable the code really is. Journalism is the last stronghold where we are speaking the things others don’t want you to publish, the rest is just public relations. Bitcoin was still in the “ridicule” stage a few years ago in its early days, they just laughed at us. But then Silk Road came along and brought bitcoin to the limelight, almost prematurely, generating a ton of bad publicity, chasing a lot of people away, because it associated bitcoin with dealing in bad drugs on the black market. And that attracted a need for censorship in the PTB. But drugs are such a small use of the bitcoin market. That’s why some states are legalizing drug use that was once banned by the NWO who wanted to promote their own products and pharmaceuticals that are often more toxic and not as mind expanding and liberating as they would want for us masses. Besides that the CIA are known to be the biggest drug traffickers in South America and Afghanistan ever. So duplicity is nothing to them.
Nevertheless blockchain will be unstoppable. It’s time has come. Dapps and smart contracts are here to stay. We may have to tread a very fine line, so as not to provoke the PTB who want to keep their grip on the masses, keep them enslaved to their debt based, military-industrial complex, while making huge profits off the sale of arms to both sides of the fight, while we fall as cannon fodder under the wheels of their tanks and monstrous killing machine. They take pleasure in destruction and death, and if they can make money from it they will do it all day long, and in fact have been doing so for decades already. Until now. For they have met their match in blockchain and bitcoin. And we who use it and live on it are the foot soldiers of the rebellion, of the revolution. We are some of the very few left who can push back against the tyranny, who have our weapon of free speech, our sword of knowledge, our open distributed ledger and we will not go quietly into the slaughterhouse of the oppressive totalitarian dictatorship that is about to take over the entire planet. The real power lies with the masses, the people, but we don’t know our own power. And they are scared of us finding out, but find out we will and resist we shall.
The blockchain is the printing press of the activist journalist, the whistle blower, the Wikileaks, the Occupy, the Anonymous, the Yellow Vest, The V for Victory, the Resistance against the Zionist, Illuminati, axis of evil wolf disguised as shepherd. This may be the last chance we have, the last years of opportunity before the chip is installed, the cameras descend, the drones watch on, the noose is tightened, so educate yourself. Watch documentaries like https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCLj8sbKYMCIkU5BBtL6C22g on the rise of the New World Order and the elite bankers who run the world via their puppet governments of UK and America. The mission of Rhodes and Rockefeller can still be stopped, and blockchain is our tool in the defense of liberty, sovereignty and humanity before the velvet glove comes off and the iron fist is revealed for what is has been all this time – war after war, false flag after false flag.
Don’t be a deer stuck in the headlights of the oncoming bone crusher of a police state as it invades your mind, steals your life and freedom as a species forever. Rise up now and stake your claim to your inalienable human right to freedom of expression, freedom from oppression, from genocide where we are all Palestine, we are all Yemen, we are all Venezuela, we are all Syria. By attacking the weakest like a sociopathic savage, you attack us all, you attack me, because I am another you, this is my family called humanity, called life on earth, and you will have to kill me to stop me from telling the world about the crimes of the century perpetrated by the NWO Illuminati Zionist demons attempting to take over the world.
Dear @crypto.piotr, @julianhorack and @everyone else reading it
Friends ,
For some, freedom is a form of expression, for others it is part of a behavior, for others it is to be free in their way of life, for others freedom is Sui generis,
However for me it is all that and much more things that would take a long time to define.
It is possible that the block chain gives us freedom but it may also be possible that we lock ourselves in it due to its complexity of composition where two factors enter the chain and the blocks are things that can be seen separately but are always linked.
There is no freedom in that unit, everything that is contrary is also possible a totally intangible slavery but it is there, and all of us who are interacting within it, however free it may seem, are not.
That is my opinion I hope not to offend, within my freedom of opinion chained to this block, which does not bother me because my word will be there always written.
Dear @lanzjoseg
Thank you for dropping by and sharing your thoughts with us Jose.
Always appreciate it.
Piotr
Dear @lanzjoseg
Thank you for dropping by and sharing your thoughts with us Jose.
Always appreciate it.
Piotr
Dear @julianhorack, for me it is a pleasure to read this article and participate in this discussion.
It is necessary to know the reality of a people to understand what is lived there, I speak for the case of Venezuela. Venezuela is currently experiencing the worst crisis in its history and is governed by a government that, according to its speech, rebelled against the oppression of the world system and all those things that you express in your speech but that at the end of everything they have become oppressors of His own people and they have taken us to the most difficult situation that my country has lived, but today they try to hide their ineptitude by blaming the "foreign intervention" being themselves who have absolute control of the system.
I really think that this technology has given us a different perspective in terms of freedom of expression and financial freedom, and has become the alternative that brings hope to people who feel oppressed financially as in the case of Venezuela that has become the second country in the world in terms of transactions with bitcoin refers only surpassed by Russia.
But like any other system this was invented by men and is managed by men who are vulnerable and ambitious, which makes them susceptible to anything moved by money, that is the weaknesses of the system.
All of us must be prepared to defend our freedom at the moment it is threatened, but think of a world without the minimum regulations, where everyone does what they want, where there are no controls or rules of coexistence, anarchy would reign and we would be exposed to totally disapproved minds like the Hitlers, Mussolini and others who in the name of "freedom" have "revolutionary" ideas committed great crimes.
That is my personal opinion.
Pr EV
The fact is that they can already hold it. Because they have invested their capital in the co-currency, and they also manage this market. Big Brother is watching us)
Thanks everyone for all the comments I have read them all - 70 so far - and it is curious to see how equally divided they are. Some are certain that our posts on the steem blockchain can be censored, for example by flagging and dragging your reputation down. and some are certain that once something is posted to the blockchain, it becomes written in digital stone (if you can imagine that).
Thanks for inviting people here @cryptopiotr, I appreciate your networking skills and service.
I realize that there may be bullying that can force a person to remove a post - especially if the editing option is now permanent and not like it used to be - only available for a week. And I realize that governments or the PTB can force the owners like Ned to do something about the blockchain if they want.
But inherently I would like to believe that once an article is posted to the blockchain, it becomes like a transaction in a long link of chains, as one comment said, that can't be removed, unless an EMP wipes out the servers. By being decentralized among many servers or nodes - (and steem may not be the best example, though there may be better ones) - you will find it very difficult to take out all the nodes or servers scattered across the world. It may not be perfect yet, but the concept of blockchain technology is to my amateur eyes a permanent ledger that is decentralized. So in the abstract terms, in theory, the blockchain is uncensorable. At present though in practice it may still need improving.
Nevertheless, the potential to speak freely, is provided by a proper blockchain with decentralized nodes. Manipulation by flagging only removes my potential to post until I pop up in another form. Reputation and profit may motivate some but if one is an activist who is fighting for the cuase of freeing humanity, like Martin Luther King Jr or Gandhi or Mandela, money is not your motive. Nor is your personal fame. The message is the most important point. And the platform is the blockchain. They can silence me but my post will be there for someone to read one day on the blockchain in cyberspace - that is my legacy.
Of course standards are needed to prevent harm, but other than that anarchy - where there is no ruler - empowers each person to be accountable to their own conscience and their peers. We don't want hate speech in the name of freedom, or incitement to violence. But we do need to stop the violence already imposed on the masses by the rulers, who are not real rulers but merely the bigger of the Mafia around. It is a moral issue as well as a political one as to whether we need full freedom of expression.
It is a technological question as to whether blockchain and particularly Steem platform is uncensorable.
In the past great libraries of wisdom were burned to hide information. Today the blockchain is a library that I hope is more resilient, so that people in the future can learn from our struggles. And our insights.
Dear @julianhorack
I'm really glad that you didn't mind that I shared your work with that large group of people. I seriously found this topic very interesting and indeed people seem to be split with their opinions.
Love the fact that you decided to read all comments. I've schedulled doing it upcoming wed :) There is just to much to read hahaha :)
Again thanks for sharing your very valuable toughts. Appreciate your time, effort and friendship.
Of course you're right. But we're living in society that is becoming "stuipider" (does this world even exist?) year by year. If front ends are being controled, then how many people will be able to "read" informations stored on blockchain ? Only very experienced tech guys would. That's my point.
It's not so much about money. To build follower base you need tons of work. And if you will be downvoted into oblivion then what is the chance that you will start all over again?
Ok, lets put it this way: database cannot be censored. But what is going to be shown to you will. That's sad reality.
Yours
Piotr
Very well said Piotr the front ends can be controlled. I was possibly being more abstract and technical in saying your words can't be censored, say if someone looked for them. Reach or reputation is of course very valid. If people don't have access to your information it may be lost in translation or on the blockchain, waiting for some digital archaeologist to come along one day and unearth (haha) your document.
And I felt it my duty to read all the posts on my post, and answer as many as I can.
Thank you again I'm so glad we could spark some debate and engagement.
Best wishes
Julian
The good thing about networks is that we can still differ in opinions, that relieves me a little, to have a different position in government management helps us.
I hope we continue with this small independence of blocks, is what has been helping us Venezuelans, as between some government to manage this, it is going to spoil, maintaining this independence is important
Thanks @crypto.piotr for indicating the post to read it, the topic is very interesting and they will see different opinions and the truth is that nobody has the absolute truth, everyone has their positions, ideas and even these can be wrong, all networks can turn around. At least here is helping us
Ooofff! It took me a long time to find this
https://steemit.com/steem/@stevekelly/steemit-the-good-the-bad-and-the-ugly
A long time ago, when I started with Steemit, it seemed great to me to earn money just by posting all kinds of information. And obviously more than a year ago, it was easier to post for newcomers, unlike today you hardly publish and you make two or three comments and all your resources went to zero and you have to wait a while for again to post.
Well, I noticed then, a post that caught my attention, the one I put at the beginning. This person made a post about the good, the bad and the ugly of Steemit at that time (I think Steemit was not its first year). I had never seen a person with a reputation below 25 at that time, however, to my amazement there were those who had negative reputation values. At first, I did not understand how that was possible
Maybe it's true that all posted will never be erased. But I assure you that that person will not post again either. And if that person wanted it, he would have to work a lot to achieve the power to post again if he is allowed to do so.
Then, from that moment, I was very careful to avoid conflicts with people with power or to make comments or to make a post that offends or dislikes in any way the whales or any other person with more power than me.
Especially for people like me, who depend a lot on Steemit to get their livelihood.
So, I agree with my friend @crypto.piotr, YES they can censor you and even eliminate your ability to re-post and vote.
There are governmental, international organizations, such as the SEC, that can censor or eliminate, if they wish, a particular blockchain.
And I think it's not difficult, just like Morris' worm in the late 80s almost takes over the internet, it's possible to make a worm that eats blockchain.
Think about it
Dear @jadams2k18
AWESOME COMMENT buddy.
Big thx for sharing your view on discussed topic.
Also thank you for accepting my invitation (memo) and dropping by. I appreciate your comment.
Have a great upcoming week :)
Piotr
Thanks @julianhorack for posting this. I agree with the most of your opinions but don’t think that Blockchain technology is “THE” solution to all oppression, censorship or any anti-human stuff. Big countries and the dark forces behind them would still find a way to interfere I’m afraid. But still, I do stand up for anything that’s wrong. And I am not afraid to speak about it, even when I know the majority of people around think the opposite. This makes me a bit lonely. I am sick of people who go with the opinion of majority and try to be very “political correct” as we say here in dutch. I don’t care being seen as “different”.
Even some important political figures here don’t really think people like myself are 100% integrated into this society. You want to know why? Because I don’t agree with them. Even in some basic assumptions and ideas I don’t agree. So then I am not seen as a fully integrated citizen.
I don’t mind. I will keep saying what I believe. Whether this is in Blockchain or real-life doesnt matter for me. But the solution to this general problem of censorship lies on the shoulders of us all! We all need to stand up when we witness something which is not right. As long as we “the people” are scared for our jobs, kids, life... and we remain silent, nothing will change and all will be even worse. For that, look at the rising right-populism parties in europe...
Thanks for your meno to read this very nice piece @crypto.piotr!
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Dear @lion200
"DARK FORCES" :) good one buddy
Thank you for sharing your view and accepting my invitation. Appreciate it a lot.
Have a great upcoming week :)
Piotr
Hahaha, what? You don't believe there are "dark forces" ruling even big countries @crypto.piotr?
You're welcome. Thanks for the invitation for this interesting topic ;)
Greetings @julianhorack and @ crypto.piotr (thanks for recommending this post), well basically I start by saying that I respect what Julian says, although most of the things referring to these issues are something film, I think not all is how it is painted and that's why I give the right to doubt and I can think that to a certain extent it can be true, reading the article certain things clicked on me and brought me memories of series that I saw some time ago (when there was light and constant internet here), as they were Shooter, Mr Robot and Seal Team, which infer a lot about these issues (the first two on what is related to the NWO, and the last one regarding what the drug traffic and the interests of them refer about other countries at war) and it is that you can see that these issues are always in order in many areas of opinion. With regard to the blockchain is true what it represents for many, and much more to free ourselves from certain situations outside the topic as is the case of many Venezuelan brothers who are looking for us in this world to generate some money for our families, a hug and until the next post (as long as it has light :v)
One love brother, life is too harsh because of the power players doing battle it seems. Crypto can be our solution I hope.
Dear @jjqf
Thank you for accepting my invitation (memo) and dropping by. I appreciate your comment.
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Piotr
Hi all,
My freedom comes from me it doesn’t depend on Steemit, my government or the whole world gov hidden group nor even the blockchain.
Our freedom lives on our souls, our brains that are the chest that must be hacked to steal it. They ( call them as you want ) are trying to force it in a continuous effort and they use all available means including our mass media and press. They use social networks too.
How to know if I’m hacked?, easy: if you think of any of the abuse examples cited by @julianhorack above and you find reasons to justify them, that’s it. No crime, no violence to people, no walls, no weapons, no starvation can be explained, justifiable or supported. You should then think that maybe your chest (brain) has already been forced and you need to reset it ASAP.
My best wishes for you all.
Cheers
Hey well said buddy, you sound inspired and fire. Great to discuss crucial issues regarding our journey of consciousness. Claiming a sense of freedom is crucial for the souls journeying through time and space lifetime after lifetime.
Dear @drakernoise
Thank you for sharing your view and accepting my invitation. Appreciate it a lot.
Have a great upcoming week :)
Piotr
Its so good reading the post though it so long but i didn't know when i read it all then moving to the comments, thanks a lot my friend @crypto.piotr for showing me this lovely post.
I also partially do not agree with @julianhorack neither do i fully agree with @crypto.piotr because my opinion is a little different from you all.
My believe is that as long as we are in this world we can never be free, the Government have been around far longer than the blockchain they have faced a lot of challenges and survive therefore to them blockchain technology is another challenge they need to overcome they just dont know yet how to go about it because of its liberty power.
With that being said we are still being closely monitored by them and we are not truly free until we all draw our last breath.
Dear @deeclown
That's very depressing belief. I wonder why do we even dream about 'being free' and what does it even mean. Thanks for sharing your view on discussed topic.
Thank you for accepting my invitation (memo) and dropping by. I appreciate your comment.
Have a great upcoming week :)
Piotr
So I'm not really sure who I should be replying to? @crypto.piotr sent me 0.002 STEEM to come and make a comment on this post so it would be ungrateful not to. :-)
I've had a quick scan through both the original post and 'some' of the 105 replies. All I can think to do is throw in a few thoughts of my own for which I apologise in advance if "That's already been said!"
1. I've said for years "Nobody truly understands FREEDOM" most people want freedom but with strings attached which, if you think about it, is not freedom.
2. Censorship: I think any action that's taken to silence, intimidate or discourage someone is a form of censorship especially in a textural environment such as this.
3. Bullying: You could also argue that Censorship is a form of bullying. I have to hold my hand up and admit that there are a fair few individuals on Steem who I'd like to see flagged down to oblivion mainly due to either their (imo) puerile output or pure cynical, self-serving content designed to Fleece as much as possible out of the community. Sadly, that view is, in fact, bullying which actually makes me ashamed. There are many forms of bullying some use their power, some use their so-called 'standing within the community' and some use their intellect.
4. Moderators: I've seen a fair few calls for some sort of Policing on Steem. From what I understand, it would be almost impossible to enforce due to the way (Supposedly) Blockchain works. I'm not a big fan of Moderators tbh. I've known a few over the years who have turned out to be less than shall we say Moderating in their judgements. "Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?"
5. Crypto & Blockchain: I see a lot of people orgasming over these two technologies I also see lots of wild claims being made. Crypto and Blockchain have only been around for 10 Years and estimates range from around 7 million users out of a world population of around 8 Billion. Until such time as financial institutes start throwing themselves fully behind it, I doubt whether it will be mainstream even in my lifetime. "Why?" I hear you ask. Because until banks or governments can find ways to control it they'll never allow it to be anything more than a niche usage, just look at how governments are currently engaged in finding ways to control the Internet. Do you really think they're going to allow Crypto to be unregulated?
Hey well thought out and published comment there @dickturpin. I see and respect your insights. yes this whole topic of freedom of expression is monumental and so multi-sided that we can never expect to sum it up in a way that will please everyone. It wouldn't even feel free any more.
And there will always be a need for watchers to guard the guards. in ancient cultures you had the scholars and advisers already, but they are also corruptible.
To be sure about crypto, I agree it will take a lot to really see it become a big player in the global financial markets. It is a very small portion still. I'm ever hopeful, though as stoic as you.
Dear @dickturpin
It's hard to say something which wasn't already been said :) Thanks for sharing your view on discussed topic.
It surely will be regulated. I think most people involved in this industry want that to happen. I surely do.
Thank you for accepting my invitation (memo) and dropping by. I appreciate your comment.
Have a great upcoming week :)
Piotr
Interesting piece @julianhorack, and there is much I could say about this... but I'll refrain and just add a simple concept many seem to overlook:
Freedom of Speech and a true lack of censorship affects everyone. Meaning — in essence — that it is neutral. Which also means it protects the NWO just as it protects those fighting it. It protects the person who wants to publish graphic posts about the babies they kidnap and then eat their brains on a live feed while they are still alive, just the same as they protect the kindly lady who rescues kittens. It protects those who would overthrow the government, just the same as it protects those in power in those governments. It protects "the NWO Illuminati Zionist demons" just as it protects YOU.
Like information, it's NEUTRAL. "Google, show me instructions on how a nuclear bomb is assembled"
That information is simply information. Do you want to build a nuclear bomb and blow something up? Or are you needing the instructions to defuse one and save lives?
Yes good point @alchemystones the NWO are already using the neutral tool of the media very well for their propaganda and own the major media corporations, 6-7 companies own the vast majority of all the media houses in the world, including Hollywood, Disney, news, etc.
I want to balance it out by using the same tool of free speech to educate the people of the world about their enslavement by these criminal banking elites. I am banned from doing so in some states of America, where it is a crime to point out the atrocities done by Israel for example. In this way the elite have stifled free speech there, but not here, so I write about it here.
Dear @julianhorack
Goether was wrong. This kind of enslavement is not the most hopeless. It's the most blessed one.
I was told once "stuipid people are the most happy people" and it's clearly that way. From my experience - those who talk about topics similar to modern slavery are the once unhappy.
Those who wake up early morning, go to work 5 times a week and do not think much about that topic - they are happier.
After all our mindset is also very important. If we live our lifes feelig like slaves - then we're really doomed. Simple as that.
If we're clueless and we believe that we work hard, we get paid and that we're free - then it's much much easier. Wouldn't you agree?ps. I'm go
Yours
Piotr
Dear Piotr,
You are confusing the idea of "being hopelessly enslaved" with "being happy". They may be related, but the concept is NOT the same. In fact, it is because they ARE happier that they are "hopelessly enslaved".
The concept of "hopelessly enslaved" is due to the fact that they make no attempt to break free of the slavery. Those who feel the oppression will be more likely to do something to try and break free.
There is an English saying - Ignorance is bliss - that seems to be what you are saying. It depends on the circumstances the person is living in. A rich person may be materially happy although uninformed about higher truths and be blissful in their ignorance. However, a poor person struggling to survive may be ignorant as to how to escape, and thus be unhappy in their ignorance. Both are in ignorance or are foolish as to the real answers. And both need uplifting into a clearer perspective of their reality, out of their ignorance.
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Thanks for the link to the documentary stuff... I love a good documentary
lol great to meet you and share
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