The essential problem that we face is two fold: You can't speak entirely freely. The panopticon is always watching. This is by design. The consequence is, in the vacuum where you could speak without consequence, the state media, a pravda-esque organ of the CIA, has filled the vacuum entirely. As we can't take the media down directly, and speaking in public has consequences (which will become *much* worse with time), the only other approach is breaking their hold on the ability to spy on, suppress, or threaten americans for speaking freely. The very implication that, for example, there may be fusion centers monitoring what you write online, or alphabet agencies might show up to "simply ask some questions" about people organizing rallys or protests (as they did with the virginia gun rallys), has been shown to have a very serious chilling effect on the exercise of those very same rights. They know this, they deny it, and it is all by design. Therefore they must be put out of their jobs. And the best way to do that now is new tech. Force them into a position where the only way to spy on americans and harass them is for them to come out in the open and break people's doors down. Make them take the mask off. And the way we do that is simple: Tech that beats the spy state. One time pads are old technology, whats been missing up to this point is easy to distribute software that utilizes them, thats resistant to subversion and man in the middle. While blockchain and public-private key systems are nice, it is hard to build your own (and doing so risks making mistakes that open the system up to very easily being decrypted), and many of the platforms built on this tech are subverted (witness the rabid leftism of the mastadon team and element). Worse, these platforms and technologies represent a complicity trap, a dead end, likely funded by state organ's themselves. Why? Simple really - in less than five years time, commercial quantum makes these technologies redundant. The new battlefield will be the old battlefield taken to the nth degree - bots, censorship, controlled narratives, artificially manipulated algorithms, the ability to impersonate any user, demote them, unperson them, bury content, promote content, in effect: total domination of the modern digital square. This will not be a 'left' thing or a 'right' thing, although the modern model of authoritarianism is 'equality based scientific' dictatorship, which the left has been groomed to accept, and mobocracy. What the "public" is saying is what "simply is - *society* has spoken!", the silencing of dissent with the manufacturing of consent and an artificial chorus of opinions that both reinforce the belief that society is *organically* moving toward corporate collectivism, and counter opinions are simply "not popular", rather than being actively suppressed by an out of control bureaucratic super state in the west and abroad. In all but name it will be the eastern "social credit system", but privatized, the worst elements of each fused into one. This represents the death not merely of the marketplace of ideas, but likely the death of the west in general as a viable civilization. Any future for free speech and free ideas, even abhorrent ones, must therefore rely on unhackable foundations, ones mathematically proven to be even beyond quantum to break. The future is not in blockchain, as the emerging global superstate would have you believe, nor merely in 'distributed platforms', but rather in a *marketplace* for entropy, that is, social networks built on *one time pads*. Therefore it should be everyones priority to establish, legitimize, and normalize the idea of fully-encrypted platforms, to push against any attempt to legislate or demonize these platforms, and to raise the alarm of the state's ever growing encroachment not merely on the 1st amendment, but the 4th, and every other right too. The fight starts and ends with free speech. And though I love peace dearly, and will never resort to or advocate for violence: It is not sufficient to be willing to die for your beliefs. But I don't think I'd be wrong to suggest there are **many** people out there who believe, those who censor or stand by, deserve to die. May this be the first shot fired in that proverbial war. Because ideas are weapons.