Freddie New

CEO, @bitcoinhodlco ( | Co-Founder, @bitcoinpolicyuk |

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[Freddie New @freddienew]

Privacy, and our basic freedoms, are under attack from all sides.

Incredibly, the so-called 'liberal democracies' are now leading these attacks; arresting their own citizens for posting online, rolling out facial recognition cameras, and moving to ban VPNs.

"What can men do against such reckless hate?" And are we losing this battle?

Absolutely not. There's still time to fight back, and we have much in our arsenal. We at @bitcoinpolicyuk have put together a 'Privacy Toolkit', that should let anyone, whatever their skill level, take a few small steps towards improving their privacy and their freedom, and making themselves just a little bit harder for governments to track and to oppress.

This isn't comprehensive, and we'll continue to update it as time goes by. We hope it's useful to everyone and serves as a handy guide to help us all push back against government overreach, wherever we find it.

Link in the thread and comments welcome! 👇

[Pimlico Journal @PimlicoJournal]

🚨NEW: Britain has developed a reputation as perhaps the most censorious 'liberal' democracy.

How did we get here — and what can we do about it?

✍️: @charliecolecc investigates.

📖: https://t.co/MkNpPmfQI9

[BULLBITCOIN.COM @BULLBITCOIN_]

If you're fed up with banks restricting your account for no reason, Bull Bitcoin gives you a way around them. You can send wire transfers to anyone in Canada or the eurozone using Bitcoin, without needing to leave money in a bank account.

[Ben Cousens @bencousens]

The Internet and the real world are going to bifurcate (for the better).

[Freddie New @freddienew]

@bencousens Absolutely perfect, hadn't heard that before but bang on.

And as another of my heroes said, perhaps "the computer can be used as a tool to liberate and protect people, rather than to control them".

[Freddie New @freddienew]

@BeccaAmilee I could tell you but that would be cheating 😜

[Freddie New @freddienew]

@dafydd_rees @alexprismbreak @GrapheneOS Fully expecting this, yes. We're going to end up smuggling distros in and out on USB sticks...

[Freddie New @freddienew]

Once again, if you hold the entirely reasonable opinion that no government should have the right to spy on you via your phone, I implore you to look into @GrapheneOS . Some off the shelf examples below.

Please also check out the Privacy Toolkit in the thread.

[Enough’s Enough @Enoughsenough00]

🚨UK Lawmakers Demand Spyware on Every UK Phone

Conservative peer John Nash and Labour MP Jess Phillips are leading a cross-party push to force scanning software onto every phone and tablet in Britain—including those already owned, via mandatory updates.

The tools would inspect every photo, video and livestream for child sexual abuse material, including AI-generated images, then block or blur matches.

Officials insist this protects children and can be done without privacy damage because nothing leaves the device. Detecting the illegal content still requires examining everything else first.

Even if it catches some abusers, it still plants a permanent state examiner inside the private camera roll on the phone you own.

[V HODL⚡ @VeteranHODL]

Never forget. Freedom isn't free.

[a16z @a16z]

Agents now make up the majority of web traffic, write more than half of new articles published online, and generate most of the code pushed to production.

This is what the early stage of a platform shift looks like: adoption is measurable, but the business models it enables mostly aren’t visible yet.

Welcome to the agent economy.

https://t.co/Y4aT9wibgb

[Stephan Livera @stephanlivera]

It feels so early for agents, and yet they're already making up such a large proportion of traffic.

[Derin Olenik @BigpictureBTC]

The agentic era is coming at the speed of superintelligence. They will use stablecoins via Bitcoins Lightning to communicate, transact, and authenticate. 👀⚡️ $LQWD @shoneanstey @BitcoinWhitcomb

[Rt Hon Steve Baker FRSA 🗽 @SteveBakerFRSA]

📈 The dominant political issue of the next 20 years will be the chronic unaffordability of the welfare state.

📣 The sooner we make changes to age-related entitlements, the less painful it will be. Read more👇

[vexl 😎 @vexl]

Every KYC database is a future data breach.

And lately, the future is becoming the present real fast.

[Freddie New @freddienew]

@ZKDID_ @GrapheneOS Would like that; probable I will be involved in the BSE BTC event again next year if not sooner

[Freddie New @freddienew]

@ZKDID_ @GrapheneOS You just can't win, can you

[.ZKDID® 🧠 @ZKDID_]

Surely it’s already in the phone because I’ve had some really weird shit happening to mine since I did the update! This was me on a video call with my wife trying to show my wife a rash that had appeared on my daughter‘s body. It stopped the video instantly when I pointed at my daughter’s body, it takes three pages/clicks until you can get back to the video after it’s pretty much trying to drag you off to the psychiatric unit for therapy. 😵‍💫 also see screen recording of a photo my daughter sent me 🤦‍♂️

[Freddie New @freddienew]

@ZKDID_ @GrapheneOS Oh my God. Assume you already disabled auto updates?

[Freddie New @freddienew]

@pauljonesAIR @ZoeRoberts53 @Mr_MobyDick @peachbitcoin We could also do with more people on the UK using @vexl

[Freddie New @freddienew]

@getbitcoin108 You will love it.

Am going full Graphene and Linux at this rate

[Freddie New @freddienew]

@JCVD Kickboxer

[Freddie New @freddienew]

@voidcompiler @Shakey_Ape @BBCNews 🤣🤣🤣