BitcoinMendocino on Nostr: Surveillance does not need to arrest everyone. It only needs to make everyone feel ...
Surveillance does not need to arrest everyone. It only needs to make everyone feel arrestable.
Privacy is the right to develop a self without permission, to think without a handler, to associate without being cataloged.
That is why power attacks privacy first. When privacy dies, liberty follows.
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2026-03-18 15:59:33 UTCEvent JSON
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