"Privacy is heads, censorship resistance is tails. They're two sides of the same coin. Everything people do together is inherently interactive. When those interactions cannot be conducted privately, when they become common public knowledge, the participants can be subjected to external pressure. They can be shunned, shamed, jailed or penalized in many other ways. Without privacy, you have no censorship resistance. Without privacy, most people will censor themselves."
"In an era where large internet platforms are accessible for free, the real cost of these platform is paid for by sacrificing your privacy in the name of advertising revenue. This economic model of the internet is a wild departure from the original vision of users paying for accessing to resources. The "402 Payment Required" error message was a part of the HTTP protocol from the very start."
A ten-episode video series focuses on Bitcoin privacy and surveillance techniques, filmed at bitcoin++ Privacy Edition in Riga and other locations. Privacy and censorship resistance are presented as inseparable: privacy enables censorship resistance, while lack of privacy exposes participants to external pressure, shunning, shaming, imprisonment, and other penalties, and encourages self-censorship. The modern internet’s advertising-funded model exchanges user privacy for free access, diverging from the original pay-for-access idea embodied by HTTP's "402 Payment Required". The Cashu ecash protocol and Bitcoin micropayments are proposed as tools to rebuild a privacy-respecting internet aligned with early web design principles.
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