[T]he removal of trade restrictions throughout the world would do more for the cause of universal peace than can any political union of peoples separated by trade barriers. Frank Chodorov
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In theory there is no difference between theory and practice. In practice …
In theory there is no difference between theory and practice. In practice there is. Yogi Berra
Facebook Takes Out Full-Page Newspaper Ads to Attack Apple’s iOS Privacy Changes, wants to track your money too with diem/libra
Facebook has today attacked Apple in a series of full-page newspaper ads, falsely claiming that iOS 14s privacy changes regarding data gathering and targeted advertising are bad for small businesses. (https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-12-16/facebook-attacks-apple-s-ios-changes-in-full-page-newspaper-ads)
In reality, it is pure self interest. Facebook, Google, Twitter etc want to be able to be track and monitor you everywhere on the web and don’t like Apple interfering, and they also want to be able to track and monitor EVERY time you use their Diem coin.
Their Diem (used to be Libra) coin is the largest, anti-privacy, anti-freedom, anti-liberty trojan horse ever. The “Diem Association”/”Libra Association” is essentially an unregulated central bank that will monitor EVERY transaction in the ledger, freeze, control, inflate the value away or seize your coins at any point. And it will be ONLY the association who can monitor it. Plus you can bet the governments around the world will want in on the ledger to monitor it.
Goodbye privacy for everything if people take up Diem and if Apple doesn’t stand up to them for the privacy of everyone else.
At least with the Fed and other central banks there is some control via a vote so that people know the issues with it. (assuming that Facebook, Google and Twitter allow you to criticize the Diem and don’t label it as “fake news” or “disputed”).
It is centralized, censorable, blocked at a border, tied to fiat, can be frozen at the whim of whatever government can pressure FB. It might just be that FB not liking what you are posting or disagreeing with you. As the last few years have shown, these huge companies (FB, Twitter, Google etc) are behold to the governments and political parities. Do something they don’t like, “well your coins are frozen and you can’t move them or cash out.” Recourse? None since they aren’t regulated banks. Think they are following you now with cookies etc? Soon they’ll be able to also track what you spend your coins on. Bitcoin will (one hopes shortly) be helping to increase privacy on chain via taproot and extensions..
It might as well be the Petro or one of the other nonsense coins. Anyone who decides to use this is just asking to be controlled, watched and monitored.
Apple standing up to Facebook in this case is important. If they’d stand up to the authoritarians everywhere around the world that would be a good step also.
We’re doing what’s right today. Steve Jobs …
We’re doing what’s right today.
Steve Jobs
It should be noted that while the State is the sort of …
It should be noted that while the State is the sort of institution which performs small tasks badly, it performs large tasks badly also. Robert Anton Wilson
Bill Barr to resign in disgrace after hunter and joe biden coverup
Attorney General Bill Barr will resign in disgrace, 12/23/2020 after helping to orchestrate the pre-election coverup of the Hunter and Joe Biden DOJ investigation.
Hey, AG Barr, and the rest of DC, we are not children. Hiding information like Fauci, and Jerome Adams and others have done is despicable. People deserve the facts, they don’t need to be managed.
The nanny state, deep state, inside the beltway idiots want to keep the voters, ignorant, uninformed, and dependent in order to maintain their own power. Completely disgusting.
Is Barr like that? Hiding vital information from the voters makes it seem that way.
We’re going to pick up Senate seats as a result of …
We’re going to pick up Senate seats as a result of this war [in 2008]. Sen. Schumer has shown me numbers that are compelling and astounding. Senator Harry Reid
On the meaning of the Iraq War to the Democrat Party, April 13, 2007
Only half of all hybrid vehicles on the U.S. market are …
Only half of all hybrid vehicles on the U.S. market are more fuel-efficient than their non-hybrid versions, researchers at the Union of Concerned Scientists find: some models pair a big gas-guzzling engine with hybrid technology in a way that enhances only performance, not fuel economy, explains UCS’s David Friedman. Newsweek
April 14, 2008
The Constitution preserves the advantage of being armed which Americans possess over …
The Constitution preserves the advantage of being armed which Americans possess over the people of almost every other nation…(where) the governments are afraid to trust the people with arms. James Madison
James Madison Federalist #46 (1751-1836)
It is said that he fought against the looting rulers and returned …
It is said that he fought against the looting rulers and returned the loot to those who had been robbed, but that is not the meaning of the legend which has survived. He is remembered, not as a champion of property, but as a champion of need, not as a defender of the robbed, but as a provider of the poor. He is held to be the first man who assumed a halo of virtue by practicing charity with wealth which he did not own, by giving away goods which he had not produced, by making others pay for the luxury of his pity. Ayn Rand
On Robin Hood, in Atlas Shrugged, Ayn Rand, 1905-1982