Ways to resist censorship: use medium.com, start a blog, use twitter

[Windowly]

One of the reasons we as a community have had trouble with censorship is that a lot of the discussion and new conglomeration happens on centralized sites. Twitter is much more free. You can say whatever you want. People have an option of following you or interacting with you if they want.

The same with blogs. If each of us had a blog, we could still interact with each other by linking to each other's posts and commenting on each other's posts. There would be less ways over zealous bitcoiners could control the conversation.

Blogs do take a bit more upkeep than an irregular forum post; but if you use wordpress.com or blogger it is not too hard. And alliances of blogs can be formed to foster discussions about certain subjects or from certain points of view.

If blogs are too hard, there is always Medium.

It's the same with bitcoin services transactions. If we all use our own wallets where we control our own private keys we can (as long as the bitcoin network stays viable for common people to transact) do our transactions with who we want when we want how we want. If we all stuck to some common wallet provider, like Coinbase, we could bitch and moan whenever they didn't let us do something we wanted to do, but we'd have no recourse other than complaining.

Just as we use Coinbase as an onramp into bitcoin, let's use this forum and others as just one means of discussion and communication. But, if you don't have a twitter account, start one. And maybe we should all start blogs as well.

Let's control our own private keys; whether it's in our bitcoin transactions or in our communications.

Update: I should note, Coinbase does have a very cool option to allow bitcoin holders to hold their own private keys.

[LiteCoinGuy]

and more implementations of the bitcoin client would be helpful too. at the moment there is only Core and nothing else. not very healty in the long run.

[Windowly]

and more implementations of the bitcoin client would be helpful too. at the moment there is only Core and nothing else. not very healty in the long run.

I couldn't agree more. And we need to get the different implementations used by miners and nodes as well so there is no monopoly on the code.

[BitcoinXio]

Great idea, but be careful of putting all your eggs in one basket. Twitter and by association Medium, practice different types of censoring tactics as well. Read: https://ello.co/zooko/post/vJA9rIvPVPjYa3xFv575eA (plus google, many other topics).

The point is, if you really want to be "uncensored," start your own website and blog via your own domain. It's trivially easy to install WordPress for example on your site (which is not governed by Wordpress.com) and you can blog about whatever you want. Keep in mind you're still bound by the laws of your country and hosting provider could possibly suspend your account, so it's also good to find a good hosting provider and/or country with favorable laws toward free speech.

[Windowly]

Great idea, but be careful of putting all your eggs in one basket. Twitter and by association Medium, practice different types of censoring tactics as well. Read: https://ello.co/zooko/post/vJA9rIvPVPjYa3xFv575eA (plus google, many other topics).

The point is, if you really want to be "uncensored," start your own website and blog via your own domain. It's trivially easy to install WordPress for example on your site (which is not governed by Wordpress.com) and you can blog about whatever you want. Keep in mind you're still bound by the laws of your country and hosting provider could possibly suspend your account, so it's also good to find a good hosting provider and/or country with favorable laws toward free speech.

Good point.
Putting all one's eggs in one basket or having a central point of failure: both are big no-nos.

Do you have any advice on good countries or domain providers or names that are pretty good free speech-wise?

[BitcoinXio]

Great idea, but be careful of putting all your eggs in one basket. Twitter and by association Medium, practice different types of censoring tactics as well. Read: https://ello.co/zooko/post/vJA9rIvPVPjYa3xFv575eA (plus google, many other topics).

The point is, if you really want to be "uncensored," start your own website and blog via your own domain. It's trivially easy to install WordPress for example on your site (which is not governed by Wordpress.com) and you can blog about whatever you want. Keep in mind you're still bound by the laws of your country and hosting provider could possibly suspend your account, so it's also good to find a good hosting provider and/or country with favorable laws toward free speech.

Good point.
Putting all one's eggs in one basket or having a central point of failure: both are big no-nos.

Do you have any advice on good countries or domain providers or names that are pretty good free speech-wise?

I haven't done a lot of research on this, but a couple of quick searches turn up some interesting information. I would like to keep digging into it though. I'm sure some other forum members might have some good suggestions too. But these all seem to be good choices:

Canada
Denmark
Finland
Germany
Norway
Sweden

Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Censorship_by_country
Also: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_ ... ld_Map.svg