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Comment by frabbit | Hacker News Reader

It is not just ISPs. It is crowdfunding and payment processing companies. See for example this apparent seizure of funding to independent journalists happening right now: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37314499

If you care about there being genuinely independent news media then funding these guys is something you can do right now.

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There is a new internet payments technology that is 100% effective against abuses like this, even when the state decides it shouldn't be possible.

Censorship-resistant payments are an essential prerequisite to a free society, something I have been asserting in public for a dozen+ years.

Unfortunately as of late they have been vilified. If I were a paranoid man, I might point out that this happened right around the time they became known to the mainstream.

It turns out that censorship-resistant payments also attract the worst type of people along with scammers first. If you had paid attention then you would have realized that is exactly what was going to happen long before it did. There is no need for paranoia here, people tend to dislike and go after hives of scum and villainy (unless they are wrapped in pretty corporate words).

To be fair you are vilifying crypto here. You’re just saying it’s justified. Which proves its vilified. Im not even into crypto but it’s value proposition starts to look better in this context.

it's value proposition looks exactly the same as it did before because literally nothing has changed

That affected party looks like more than just an "independent journalist". They look like a kook that probably did something to deserve it. Can we please have some actual "free speech" that isn't another boring fig leaf for crime?

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