Activists are essential to decentralized systems
Imagine BitTorrent without The Pirate Bay doing everything it can to stick around
Tor exit node operators took on real risk in the early days especially
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Also varies a lot by country. In the US, if I recall correctly, you're mainly definitely going on some fed list and at risk of having your ISP kick you off
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Yeah. The most terrifying thing IMO is the idea that your house might be raided and all your machines seized because someone was viewing child porn through the exit node you ran. With that in mind, it seems especially valuable that institutions like MIT run exit nodes
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Rephrasing orig tweet: It seems like decentralized systems which leverage legal grey areas depend on activists willing to fight the inevitable battles that come from running the most sensitive parts. Pirate Bay founders & Tor exit node operators knew LE would harass them one day
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From one perspective, maybe this seems obvious: activist software requires activism. From a pure techno-utopian decentralization perspective tho, I think it is easy to see us fighting legal systems w/ pure software. Pirate Bay founders and exit node operators are critical though
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I think "legit" institutions like Coin Center are key too, in terms of creating room for sufficient adoption to happen. Nic put it well:https://twitter.com/nic__carter/status/1013890458236354561 …
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There's a delicate in-between period, which I think bitcoin and ethereum are probably out of, but almost nothing else
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Pure crypto-anarchism seems to only exist in real world as a subset of legally ambiguous & permissible tech. Tor, BTC, and PGP have all bothered USG before but have general good uses. Darknet markets are the subset combining them all. CoinCenter protects permissible buffer layer
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