On 10/15/20, Zenaan Harkness <zen@freedbms.net> wrote:
The video makes it pretty clear that cypherpunks were holding the role of addressing that dilemma, right inside technology.
s/role/intention/
Cypherpunks are supposed to hold the -intention- to benefit the lower downs/ the people/ human rights, rather than govcorp.
Juan's (largely correct) point is that the pudding has proved something close to the opposite of that intention - total take surveillance, zero privacy, owelling fascism racing down the pipeline to keep us all in line (face/retina scanning, social credit, no travel/train tickets except you have the chip of the beast and a "sufficiently positive" social credit score, for just a few examples...)
this movement from role to intention is happening in every aspect of society as those with the ability to influence and spy alter peoples' impacts. what's probably important here is that some technologies, when stolen by the government, give the government more power than the people, and some do not. additionally, some things stimulate the government to get defensive and out-research them, and some do not.