why bother? • Freedom (of choice; from censorship) • Privacy (deciding what to share, with whom) • Prosperity (fewer middlemen, fewer fees) • Resiliency (fewer single points of failure) • Competition (leading to better choices for users)
! "No one shall be subjected to arbitrary interference with his privacy, family, home or correspondence, nor to attacks upon his honour and reputation. Everyone has the right to the protection of the law against such interference or attacks." ! ~Article 12, UN Universal Declaration of Human Rights, 1948
"It’s time to start paying for privacy, to support services we love, and to abandon those that are free, but sell us—the users and our attention—as the product."
The Four Freedoms 1. The freedom to run the program as you wish, for any purpose. 2. The freedom to study how the program works, and change it so it does your computing as you wish. Access to the source code is a precondition for this. 3. The freedom to redistribute copies so you can help your neighbor. 4. The freedom to distribute copies of your modified versions to others. By doing this you can give the whole community a chance to benefit from your changes. Access to the source code is a precondition for this.
things you can do • Patronize "small businesses" on the web like pinboard • Or start one :) • Run a full bitcoin node • Run a Tor exit node • Read up, dive in: http://chris.beams.io/posts/bitcoin/
"In order to change an existing paradigm you do not struggle to try and change the problematic model. You create a new model and
make the old one obsolete. That, in essence, is the higher service to which we are all being called." ~ Buckminster Fuller ~
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