Bitcoin and Encryption are Protected by Freedom of Speech
May 22, 2015 was a special day in the tug-of-war of Between government, Bitcoin, and other encryption-related issues. On that day, the United Nations issued a report declaring encryption as a form of free speech. What is encryption? The SANS institute’s definition of encryption is: The UN’s report mentioned that certain governments wanted to keep a less....
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Financial commerce, the exchange of money and currency, is indistinguishable from speech. Therefore, it deserves the exact same respect and "freedom of speech" protections afforded to the utterances of the street-corner preacher, the independent journalist, the newspaper publisher, the internet blogger and so on. Financial commerce is speech, and should be free. "Freedom of Speech" by xoxolaxbabexoxo at deviantart. Despite all of the "freedom of speech" and "free speech" talk we hear, speech today is anything but free. This ranges from what you can and can't say in public or in print or on....
FREEDOM MetaDAO is creating the first DAO as a Service that enables freedom of speech, privacy, and protection. The platform allows users with little to zero knowledge of the crypto space to establish and oversee DAO-based groups with its customizable templates, including interacting modules. It offers tools for mitigating corruption and facilitating transparency. FREEDOM is […]
The founding fathers of the United States believed the protection of free speech was of paramount importance. When James Madison penned the Bill of Rights, he placed freedom of speech right at the top, and the First Amendment of the United States Constitution has persisted as one of the hallmark features of American democracy. Unfortunately, […]
Does the OFAC not know that code is speech? Yesterday, we covered the EFF’s demands for clarity around the Tornado Cash situation and the case they’re defending. Today, we’ll dig into a simple idea, the reason code is protected under free speech laws. As it has for decades in the US. As a bonus, we’ll […]
Donors to Canada’s Freedom Convoy should have used Whirlpool-mixed bitcoin to break deterministic links and provide forward-looking anonymity.