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Growing tensions between US free speech values and European censorship laws threaten online discourse. The post Sarah B. Rogers: Europe’s Online Safety Act threatens US free speech, 12,000 arrests for speech acts in the UK, and the chilling effects of vague regulations | All-In with Chamath, Jason, Sacks & Friedberg appeared first on Crypto Briefing.
2026-2-4 01:14 | |
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Buckle up for some snarky headlines later this night – Mark Zuckerberg is going to stream a speech about his views on free speech and expression. It’s scheduled to take place at 10 am PT/1 pm ET / 10.
2019-10-17 09:12 | |
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The latest skirmishes in the bruising trade war between the U.S. and China have led to the unlikely politicization of the NBA. But how did the views of a basketball executive become such a political football? And what does China’s ideological commitment to censorship say about the value of free speech and of free speech […] The post Bitcoin Is a Weapon for Free Speech in the Face of Government and Corporate Censorship appeared first on Bitcoin News.
2019-10-15 17:30 | |
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On July 23, U. S. Attorney General William Barr gave a speech demanding big players in the tech industry work with government agencies in providing backdoor entry points for encrypted devices and software.
2019-7-29 02:15 | |
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When the anonymous social media app YOLO was launched in May 2019, it topped the iTunes downloads chart after just one week, despite the lack of a major marketing campaign. Designed to be used with social network Snapchat, YOLO lets users invite people to send them anonymous messages.
2019-7-22 20:00 | |
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When the anonymous social media app YOLO was launched in May 2019, it topped the iTunes downloads chart after just one week, despite the lack of a major marketing campaign. Designed to be used with social network Snapchat, YOLO lets users invite people to send them anonymous messages.
2019-7-22 20:00 | |
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The United States government can’t ban bitcoin because the original cryptocurrency is free speech that’s protected under the Constitution. That’s the opinion of Bill Barhydt, the CEO of crypto wallet and exchange Abra.
2019-7-3 21:10 | |
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Gab has made a bid to seal $10 million in a Series A crowdfunding round that will enable it to decentralize its infrastructure and integrate bitcoin and Lightning Network payments
2019-7-4 15:44 | |
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In a five-minute video blog this week, Roger Ver compared violent leftists to Bitcoin maximalists, concluding that they share tactics and ideology. Is It Okay to Punch a Bitcoin Cash Supporter? A group of “Antifa” or anti-fascist demonstrators recently beat up a journalist, which has reignited the conversation around “free speech.
2019-7-3 19:11 | |
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With growing concerns about a perceived censorship bias on social media platforms such as Facebook, YouTube, and Twitter, the demand for censorship-resistant social media networks is on the rise. A number of blockchain startups aim to use a decentralized model to preserve free speech in the digital age. But can a fully decentralized social media platform work?
2019-6-24 23:00 | |
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After Keybase announced integration of Stellar on its platform, Gab has threatened to fork the open-source chat software and swap its XLM wallet for a Bitcoin Lightning Wallet. The famously anti-censorship social network previously forked the Brave browser.
2019-5-17 19:34 | |
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According to a post on TechCrunch, May 09, 2018, Singapore’s new law to fight fake news on the internet is likely to render the government unreasonable powers to control the content on online media, which could be a threat to free speech.
2019-5-10 12:00 | |
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The controversial social media site Gab has built its own Dissenter web browser. The browser is the first step in eventually creating a “free-speech marketplace and app store that is powered by free-speech money, bitcoin.
2019-4-26 19:00 | |
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Gab, the free speech-focused social network, made headlines again after Co-creator, Andrew Torba, announced plans to develop a new browser. The decision was made public after the company lost support from Google and Mozilla to host their upcoming ‘comments engine’ browser extension.
2019-4-26 14:30 | |
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Crypto Twitter is embroiled in a heated debate over whether to suspend the controversial @Bitcoin account. Bitcoin maximalists call for its removal for violating Twitter’s terms of service and for false advertising, defenders of Bitcoin Cash and free speech are resistant to what they describe as “censorship.
2019-4-23 14:39 | |
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By CCN: Vitalik Buterin is known first and foremost as the creator of Ethereum, but he’s also famous for his disdain of centralized exchanges. After previously wishing that centralized exchanges would all “burn in hell”, now Buterin is coming to their defense.
2019-4-18 21:03 | |
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Старший научный сотрудник nChain и самопровозглашенный Сатоши Накамото Крейг Райт подал иск о защите чести и достоинства в Высокий суд Лондона против ведущего известного подкаста о биткоине Питера Маккормака.
2019-4-18 20:39 | |
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Предлагаем вашему вниманию сокращённый перевод статьи On Free Speech Виталика Бутерина. Свобода слова — идея, которую последние 20 лет защищают многие интернет-сообщества. Большинство криптовалютных сообществ поддерживают сопротивление цензуре и особенно склонны высоко ценить свободу слова, но в последние несколько лет чрезвычайно быстрый рост этих сообществ, а также участвующие в них влиятельные фигуры (в финансовом и […]
2019-4-18 10:28 | |
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“A statement may be both true and dangerous. The previous sentence is such a statement. ” - David Friedman Freedom of speech is a topic that many internet communities have struggled with over the last two decades.
2019-4-19 04:03 | |
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Brave CEO Brendan Eich has weighed in on a controversy concerning Gab, a far-right social media platform. While Gab considers itself a free speech platform, its critics have denounced it as a hotbed of hate speech.
2019-4-15 19:08 | |
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Bitcoin as a free speech of money is gaining momentum as more than $30,000 (and counting) worth of Bitcoin has been donated to Wikileaks defense fund since its founder Julian Assange’s arrest. Yesterday, we reported the arrest of Julian Assange from the Ecuadorian embassy in London, where he had been living for the past seven […]
2019-4-12 18:21 | |
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A 2013 speech from Chinese president Xi Jinping has emerged in which he declared that “socialism will inevitably vanquish capitalism. ” As China and the US hammer out an excruciating trade deal, it’s a reminder of the socialist agenda at the heart of China’s politics.
2019-4-2 13:28 | |
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The French are nothing if not expressive. In the country of the language of love, free speech, and Charlie Hebdo, Pascal Boyart has revealed his third piece of revolutionary street art in Paris with a Bitcoin QR code hidden inside.
2019-3-19 00:00 | |
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Censorship is on the rise. The dream of an open, horizontal, internet where anyone can freely participate and communicate with all, is turning into a hierarchical internet where public spaces. . .
2019-3-8 18:17 | |
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Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey, Twitter’s legal counsel Vijaya Gadde, Youtuber Joe Rogan and independent journalist Tim Pool engaged in a wide ranging debate on censorship and free speech over more.
2019-3-6 19:19 | |
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It seems French President Emmanuel Macron wants to leverage the power of blockchain technology to make the agriculture industry more innovative, transparent, and put Europe in the “avant-garde of agricultural technology”.
2019-3-1 16:21 | |
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When Coinbase acquired Neutrino for an unspecified amount in February 2019, the news looked like business as usual: A cryptocurrency juggernaut had made another acquisition.
2019-3-1 17:19 | |
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A new Reddit competitor called Gab Dissenter from Bitcoin-friendly social media network Gab. ai almost matched the daily active users on its first day of operations than all Ethereum DApps combined.
2019-2-27 12:00 | |
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Billionaire Elon Musk should be removed as Tesla CEO because he had the audacity to criticize the Securities and Exchange Commission. That’s the opinion of CNBC host Jim Cramer, who apparently doesn’t believe in free speech.
2019-2-27 23:40 | |
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Over the past year, Facebook’s biggest challenge has been moderating billions of posts every day in more than a hundred languages. It’s proven almost impossible to maintain a balance between what is deemed as “hate speech” and “free speech” since social media is global, but our perception of “free speech” is determined by region.
2019-2-26 16:58 | |
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The Electronic Frontier Foundation is taking the SEC to task for potentially repressive policies related to enforcement actions levied against crypto industry firms. Free speech online is the EFF’s wheelhouse, but in a recent blog post, they’ve also addressed other matters in the cryptosphere.
2019-2-14 22:19 | |
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Blockchain has a new unexpected hero: Twitter’s Jack Dorsey. Although up until recently the cryptocurrency community would routinely grill Dorsey over Twitter’s notorious Bitcoin giveaway scam epidemic, the micro-blogging service’s chief has found a new fandom among staunch Bitcoin supporters; and it all began on the Joe Rogan’s podcast, The Joe Rogan Experience.
2019-2-12 20:08 | |
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BloqLabs has opened up the beta waitlist for Titan, a fully integrated software suite for managing cryptocurrency mining. The project was introduced by Bloq CEO and co-founder Jeff Garzik onstage during a brief speech at Binance Fair in Singapore in an overview discussion of BloqLabs.
2019-1-24 20:20 | |
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Patreon has been making the case for censorship-resistant money increasingly apparent. The platform allows members to contribute to artists or creators that they support.
2019-1-19 22:15 | |
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Discover Bitpatron, a digital platform that enables you to earn Bitcoin for writing content without fearing demonetization or removal from the platform. The free speech content membership platform powered by Bitcoin enables users to earn Bitcoin for speaking their mind regardless of their political affiliations or the ideas they harbor. The Bottleneck of a free […]
2019-1-18 01:18 | |
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Pro-Bitcoin Gab Founder Loses Coinbase Account, Calls For DEXs Gab. com, an up-and-coming social media platform that advocates for free speech is by no means, ironically enough, a stranger to financial censorship.
2019-1-6 00:13 | |
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A fresh wound has opened in the culture war, and this time money is the blade. In recent days, a number of prominent Youtubers and other content creators have abandoned the crowdfunding platform Patreon in protest at the deplatforming of “Sargon of Akkad” aka Carl Benjamin.
2018-12-18 23:30 | |
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Censorship-free social media platform, Gab, took to Twitter to proclaim the gospel according to Bitcoin. Describing the grandaddy of cryptocurrency as “free speech money,” it pledged to educate its near million-strong community.
2018-12-17 23:00 | |
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Gab, a social network dedicated to preserving freedom of speech, has announced that its store now accepts BTC directly after banks and payment processors denied the platform service. “Literally no one can no-platform our new crypto shop,” Gab announced.
2018-12-15 07:35 | |
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Speaking at the ongoing CoinDesk's Consensus Invest conference in New York, U. S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) Chairman Jay Clayton spoke on why his agency hasn’t yet approved a bitcoin exchange traded fund (ETF).
2018-11-29 21:56 | |
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Free Speech for People fears that classifying the donation of processing power as volunteering may cause a loophole in campaign contribution requirements. The proposer, OsiaNetwork LLC, has responded, while the Federal Election Commission collects feedback on a draft opinion.
2018-11-21 23:05 | |
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Another week, another slew of projects banned by major web platforms. Paypal has ejected Bitchute, a Youtube competitor that champions free speech, while Facebook has banned ad campaigns by Bloom that promoted a rival service.
2018-11-16 11:50 | |
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In a landmark ruling in 1999, the second highest court in the land, the Court of Appeal, ruled that code is speech and as such can not be subject to... The post Smart Contract Code is Free Speech, Protected by the First Amendment appeared first on Trustnodes.
2018-11-9 15:13 | |
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Ever since the U. S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) issued a stern warning about initial coin offerings (ICOs) in February 2018, cryptocurrency projects have had to consider different options for distributing their tokens — and funding their development.
2018-10-20 19:31 | |
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Free speech is a key aspect of the internet, but it has become increasingly obvious that many online will push that freedom to extremes, leaving website comment sections, Twitter feeds and Facebook groups awash with racist, sexist, homophobic, or otherwise unpalatable opinions and vitriolic views, and obscene or shocking images or videos.
2018-10-10 12:26 | |
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Censorship-resistance is a hot topic right now. On an internet where prominent voices are being silenced and deplatformed, and free speech services are being threatened with the same fate, decentralization is more urgent than ever.
2018-8-28 19:55 | |
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A few days ago, about a dozen articles and campaign sites criticizing EU plans for copyright censorship machines silently vanished from the world’s most popular search engine. Proving their point in the most blatant possible way, the sites were removed by exactly what they were warning of: Copyright censorship machines.
2018-8-20 16:59 | |
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Sapien Network is creating a tokenized, democratized, reputation-based, Web 3.0, social news platform that will give users back control of their data, reward content creators, and fight fake news. They are looking to leverage the latest Blockchain technologies to build a platform that is immune to censorship, guards free speech, respects user privacy, and persists […]
2018-8-1 02:26 | |
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Bitcoin, in its nine years of existence, has steadily gained traction, defining itself as a new digital gold. Early adopters of this technology have shown excitement for the potential of this inflation-proof sound money.
2018-7-14 00:48 | |
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Tokenized AI will democratize access to the world’s most valuable resource, argues Brukhman.
My $49k Bitcoin bear thesis, a January check-in, the plumbing is flashing while price bleeds I wrote my medium-term $49,000 bear thesis in late November with one simple idea, Bitcoin still moves in cycles, and the next real “this is the low” moment tends to arrive when miner economics and flows line up at the […] The post I predicted Bitcoin falling to $49k this year and January delivered some very concerning red flags appeared first on CryptoSlate.
A year after issuing an open letter to the incoming Trump administration, crypto law experts reflect on their regulatory advice.
It’s about deposits and who gets paid on them, argues Le.
The following is a guest post and opinion from Artemiy Parshakov, VP of Institutions at P2P. org. How the Institutional View of Self-Custody Is Changing For years, institutional participants largely equated self-custody with retail risk.
If BASE becomes economically tied to COIN, the token would trade not as a memeified L2 token, but as a globally accessible representation of equity-like value.
It would be a mistake to see the incoming wave of aggressive APYs as the new baseline, according to Ron Tarter, CEO of MNEE. This is merely the promotional phase of stablecoins.