Fun fact: did you know passports were not required for travel before WW1?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Passport#History
During WW1, governments made them mandatory to monitor their borders more closely. After WW1, there was even talk of abolishing them!
But WW2 came and afterward, they became entrenched.
So next time you hear about government doing deals with each other for immigration/trade, note that they are merely giving you back a subset of freedoms that they already took away themselves.
#AbolishPassports
Leah Rowe ist kein Roweboter
npub1uz…8gkxp
2025-09-19 07:50:33 UTC
Author Public Key
npub1uzstp725mdhkf9j3lp32c3fhd9emj2nqfk9frqjxxd79xz067zhq68gkxpSeen on
wss://relay.momostr.pinkPublished at
2025-09-19 07:50:33 UTCEvent JSON
{
"id": "b84426975e9e4f2af19544e024346c0dd02b641568549e0ac7b3a73595718fcd",
"pubkey": "e0a0b0f954db6f649651f862ac45376973b92a604d8a918246337c5309faf0ae",
"created_at": 1758268233,
"kind": 1,
"tags": [
[
"proxy",
"https://mas.to/@libreleah/115229866924845752",
"web"
],
[
"t",
"abolishpassports"
],
[
"proxy",
"https://mas.to/users/libreleah/statuses/115229866924845752",
"activitypub"
],
[
"L",
"pink.momostr"
],
[
"l",
"pink.momostr.activitypub:https://mas.to/users/libreleah/statuses/115229866924845752",
"pink.momostr"
],
[
"-"
]
],
"content": "Fun fact: did you know passports were not required for travel before WW1?\n\nhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Passport#History\n\nDuring WW1, governments made them mandatory to monitor their borders more closely. After WW1, there was even talk of abolishing them!\n\nBut WW2 came and afterward, they became entrenched.\n\nSo next time you hear about government doing deals with each other for immigration/trade, note that they are merely giving you back a subset of freedoms that they already took away themselves.\n\n#AbolishPassports",
"sig": "920426a4591f151f99696c23b3ea62972b87ba4e0cbbbc4e8a014a511740565c91d36f7f27007148dd5ee4621ae41789da1c2b73bf76dd4c9a23bb4274b6d4a7"
}