cairo

lawyer @0xhorizonslaw // @ValisDigital

[cairo @michaelcairo_]

do not comply, sue the state

[vx-underground @vxunderground]

Chat, all hell has broken loose in the Linux community.

Linux nerds are discussing how they'd implement age verification at the OS level (if need be to comply with laws).

Linux nerds are having a psychiatric meltdown. The nerds are revolting.

[cairo @michaelcairo_]

really great write-up.

i’m not sure that they would need to separate u.s. revenues from HYPE buybacks if they went with option 2, though, since the fees and buybacks are programmatic at the protocol layer. isn’t that like saying that eth becomes a security if any companies built on ethereum pay gas, which benefits eth?

[cairo @michaelcairo_]

upper decking 28mgs of swedish ginger peach nicotine at work

[cairo @michaelcairo_]

@KyleSamani 😂

[cairo @michaelcairo_]

@udiWertheimer @bitbitcrypto i had the same thought but i think mstr would get sued into oblivion if they burnt any btc instead of finding a seller at any price

[cairo @michaelcairo_]

@EthBushwick @defidave smh at the guy who showed up to the exotic cig meetup with cracker barrel candy cigs

[cairo @michaelcairo_]

@bitbitcrypto great take, completely agree

[cairo @michaelcairo_]

@brianlong @mollytuttle haven’t given her a serious listen yet but will do!

[cairo @michaelcairo_]

billy strings is one of the greatest guitar players alive

[Billy Strings @BillyStrings]

My first album Turmoil & Tinfoil came out 7 years ago today. When I made it I never imagined it would be the start to this flabbergasting ride I’ve been on. Thank you for showing me love and support. 🏠 🌀

[Mullvad.net @mullvadnet]

So-called age verification for social media is spreading across the world, framed as an effort to create a safer internet for children. In reality, age verification lays the foundation for a fully controlled internet.

The age verification rush must be slowed down, and politicians need to recognize the consequences of different types of legislation and systems.

Age verification is the wrong approach to fix “the social media problem”
The big tech social media companies are bad. Their business model is bad; it is based on mass surveillance and manipulation, and they cooperate with governments in mapping entire populations. But age verification is fundamentally the wrong approach to preventing children from using big tech social media platforms. Introducing age verification is based on coercion; the state forces social media companies to verify their users’ identities. But the big tech social media platforms already know which of their users are children. Their business model depends on knowing this. They know how old users are, and they know exactly what type of person they are. As age verification is based on coercion, politicians could instead force platforms to stop doing the things politicians consider harmful to children, or force them to block children (again, they know who they are) from using their services. But instead, politicians seek to massively invade everyone’s privacy and undermine democratic rights on a global scale. In other words, the latter is the real objective – they do not want to protect children; they want to impose control.

Slippery slope of age verification
It is undeniable that age verification threatens freedom of expression, risks increasing mass surveillance, and is likely to lead to censorship. It will not only shrink the online world and reduce young people’s right to privacy (for example, if VPN services were to be restricted); but also risks becoming a significant step toward a controlled internet for everyone.

Most age verification is identity verification
Most countries are now considering introducing age verification systems, meaning that everyone would have to identify themselves either to the service/website they want to use or to a third party capable of linking them to their activity on that service or website. This is not age verification but identity verification, and the consequence is therefore that freedom of information is restricted (you can no longer visit regulated websites anonymously) and that you can no longer post anonymously on social media. This is a major problem in countries like the UK and Germany where the police conduct raids on people’s homes for posting content on social media that the authorities dislike. Or in the United States, where authorities are trying to pressure tech companies into revealing the identities behind accounts protesting ICE. Social media identity verification removes important tools for activists in countries where criticizing those in power is dangerous.

Restrictions on app store or operating system level
Some countries are looking to impose identity verification at the app store level or even within the operating system itself. This is an exciting experiment, since this is possible to circumvent using open-source operating systems. Some countries are already looking to include open-source systems. Since open-source systems cannot be controlled, politicians would ultimately need to ban devices that are not controlled by the state. The end point: telescreens like those in Orwell’s 1984, devices that both monitor you and broadcast only the information approved by the state.

The Zero-Knowledge Proof (ZKP) alternative and the EU
The EU has presented its own age verification app as “completely anonymous”. The idea is to use Zero-Knowledge Proof (ZKP) cryptography to break the link between the age credential issuer (EU governments) and the regulated services/sites. Currently, the EU app does not have ZKP functionality, contrasting Ursula von der Leyen’s claim that the app ”is technically ready to be used”. But more importantly, the app is currently designed to always function without ZKP technology; if ZKP is unavailable, the app falls back to a non-ZKP model. Even if fully developed ZKP technology could be implemented in the future, it would remain an optional extra feature that countries may choose to disable and that the EU could remove at any time.

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[cairo @michaelcairo_]

market is finally catching up to my onchain pokemon thesis

https://t.co/pFzeCpYe9B

[cairo @michaelcairo_]

@fleetingbits yes but its output docs will default to garamond with fancy small caps for section titles instead of plebeian arial

[cairo @michaelcairo_]

@DancingEddie_ he runs a sol dat, he’s talking his book

pretty reasonable business strategy

[cairo @michaelcairo_]

@sourfarmer whoever made this should be thrown in the penitentiary

[cairo @michaelcairo_]

@0xHerculesGL congrats big guy!

[cairo @michaelcairo_]

this is the kind of thing that makes me proud to be american. the first amendment is not a meme

[Nik Richie @nikrichie]

For those of you following Plein vs Richie - Here is our response from First Amendment legend @marcorandazza - 🇺🇸

[cairo @michaelcairo_]

@DancingEddie_ fire

[cairo @michaelcairo_]

@ThePumponomics rich is “a relationship between your needs and your capital” is a bar

[cairo @michaelcairo_]

@0xINFRA @noat_future

[Matthew Segal @segalmr]

CLIENT: These federal charges seem serious. What kind of sentence could I get?

LAWYER: Depending on the next presidential election, you're looking at somewhere between life imprisonment and becoming a millionaire.

[cairo @michaelcairo_]

@L0laL33tz @iang_fc dc brain worms manifest in a congressional witness. i couldn’t have satirized it better myself