I especially love how cash acceptance can serve as a way to separate services that actually provide privacy from those that talk about it but really don't.
In other words, accepting cash is easy and costs nothing. So providers that don't are questionable in my opinion.
For example, my VPN provider has no idea who I am. No personal info is required (not even email) to sign up and obtain an ID and key. I simply send cash along with my ID to activate/renew.
Way easier/simpler than crypto and if you really think about it, no more risky either. How would you legally prove you made an anonymous crypto payment and it was received?
I was replying to someone on the un-refreshed page before the comments were moved. I clicked reply and I saw the whole discussion vanish. Gave me a bit of a scare, but fortunately it ended up posting in reply correctly on the moved comment.
They might not need to change their name. I don't think that copyright infringement is seen as bad by Americans compared to the privacy stuff that Facebook is known for—not that most Americans care about privacy, I guess I don't really know why Facebook rebranded.
Personally, I would be happy if AI companies are what finally take down intellectual monopoly (intellectual property). I know being anti-intellectual-monopoly isn't a common view, but i don't see average people thinking it is so important—as you can see by the huge increases in piracy recently. Could be wrong about this, I haven't done research on public opinion about copyright.
Honestly, this whole case could be great. Either copyright loses, good for us. Or Zuckerberg loses, also good for us.
I would say that copyright loses is better for society than Zuckerberg loses because, my wish for Zuckerberg to lose is from hatred, while my wish for copyright to be abolished is from my wish to help humanity.
Even Supreme Court justices[1] have said the case for copyright is thin.
You are entitled into your world view. What I personally would prefer to see would be laws that strengthened individual copyright and weakened the predatory behavior of big players who copyright and patent every single thing.
I see the ability for trillion dollar companies to wash their hands of any wrong doing for stealing all the intellectual property of the world as incredibly dangerous for innovation in the US.
So for me I would rather see reform then an abandonment. There wouldn't be much of anything to pirate if there was no incentive or protection to create in the first place.
In my mind the biggest threat the average person faces would be billionaires who can operate with impunity. Rather then a fine for pirating a book or a movie. It would be nice if the fines were proportionate to the value of the item... I digress
Monero would really help in a situation like this. It's a shame I lost all of mine in a boating accident.
Banking unprivavcy is a complete violation of the 4th amendment. The argument is that you are voluntarily giving your information to this third part.
1. It is not voluntary. You need to bank to exist in society.
2. It is federal law that these banks have to invade your privacy in this way. They are mandating that these third parties spy on you. It is a dirty loophole.
If you don't have the evidence to get a warrant, maybe you shouldn't be spying.
I'm sorry that happened—the banking system sucks. You can just buy Litecoin instead and swap.
Personally, I'm going to look into RetoSwap, but I appreciate Kraken sticking it out keeping it listed. I might not have gotten any Monero if not for Kraken.
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