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vitalik.eth· 2026-02-18 12:57
This is a good post on the impact of surveillance in Iran:https://t.co/1kT3SrsCyOIt's worth reading.IMO one mistake that freedom advocates often make is that we talk about privacy violation and surveillance as "dystopian", using the word as a semantic stop sign: we know it means "bad", we nod along, and don't really go further to clarify why it's bad. I worry that this approach is long-run unhealthy: when we criticize various companies and countries for being "dystopian" and stop there, then to someone who' ...