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Have a look at xmrbazaar.com, it’s not open source yet, but it will be after they get out of beta.

You can win in gambling, there’s no winning here.

Can you name some popular projects against big tech by conservatives?

The entire alt-tech sphere, I guess, but other than that I can’t really think of many projects that explicitly say they lean right or left. As far as I can tell, most projects focus on working on whatever they’re trying to accomplish and don’t mention their political opinions for whatever reason, maybe because they don’t want to alienate their users and contributors or maybe because they are made by many people, each with their own opinions, and there isn’t a single shared belief system behind it, like ThePirateBay for example. We can try to infer what political stance someone holds, like the CEO of Brave, for example, who donated some money to an anti-gay marriage bill in 2008, or the CEO of Proton, who said some positive things about the Republican party recently, but I don’t think it’s fair to assign a political affiliation to the entire project because some of the team members expressed their opinions.

Are you sure? most people working on projects against big tech tend to be very left leaning.

I think that you make a mistake and assume that just because someone agrees with you on not wanting to be reliant on big tech, they also agree with you on everything else, or you read something like

We want to advance human rights and freedoms by creating and deploying free and open source anonymity and privacy technologies, supporting their unrestricted availability and use, and furthering their scientific and popular understanding

and falsely assign that to be a left-wing stance, when in reality most people, left or right, would support that. I haven’t seen any evidence that most people working on anti big tech projects are left-leaning. Most people don’t publicly share their political beliefs.

FOSS is for everyone. Not wanting to be dependent on big tech isn’t uniquely a leftist ideal, and it should be obvious by now that the political affiliation and community guidelines of big tech companies are entirely dependent on the current political landscape, not any moral values or held ideals, and can change at any moment.

Inb4 I get arrested for butt texting.

So the statement

There are no ethical billionaires

is (or at least can be) false. The amount of money someone has does not define if they are ethical or not. I think we agree on the premise of the argument just not on the example I provided.

I’m not, I’m just asking what’s unethical about having money. If he made it fair and square what’s wrong with that? Notch is a good example because he’s self made and didn’t have a big corpo behind him, anything beyond that is irrelevant to the argument I’m making.

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What about Eron Wolf, the founder of the FUTO foundation?

What about Brian Acton, the CEO of signal?

Did he do something bad or just haven’t done enough good? I don’t really keep up with him.

I don’t really keep up with random people’s politics, and I suppose anything short of a communist is considered far right in these circles, but putting aside the idea that anyone who doesn’t support collectivism is a devil incarnate, what’s unethical about making a game and pawning it off to M$ for a billion $?

What about Notch, the creator of minecraft?

It says that the content can’t be digital, you’d have to use video tapes or other analog medium.

You could allow buying store credit or steam wallet funds in this case. Your crypto gets converted to a “stable currency” at the time of sale. You can do that right now by buying steam gift cards, just not directly from steam.

Use monero, it’s what bitcoin was supposed to be.

The law is whatever the judge says it is. You could have undeniable proof of your innocence and still get convicted.

I was about to install it on my server until I found out that it’s developed by the UK government. Now I won’t trust it even though it’s open source.

Eventually a network decentralized on an infrastructure level, like a meshnet or satellite network where each satellite is controlled and owned by an individual, will be the only way to freely transmit digital information. Sending a CubeSat to LEO costs about $30k these days and will probably get cheaper as technology improves. I think a community run decentralized satellite network accessible via local meshnet through on-ground satellite-connected nodes will be the next step in the fight against censorship. As long as governments control the cables our data flows through, they won’t stop trying to control it.