The media is ignoring the worst of this. I’m going to take a brief moment to share the broader message I shared with the Quilibrium community after news broke.

The media is ignoring the worst of this. I’m going to take a brief moment to share the broader message I shared with the Quilibrium community after news broke.

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/congress/senate-renews-fisa-section-702-spying-privacy-rcna148394#

This was one of the things we were in the group letter to Congress on to urge them to stop:

BDFL of Quilibrium, Eng @ Farcaster, ex-Coinbase, always opinionated, never hydrated

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This was one of the things we were in the group letter to Congress on to urge them to stop:

https://blog.mozilla.org/netpolicy/files/2023/12/FISA-Reauthorization-Letter-12.8.pdf

Clearly they did not listen to our petition for constitutional order to be restored. So instead, we will have to push forward and force that order (and return to constitutional values) to be restored by virtue of our launch.

One thing that people do not all know about me here. I am in what I call my bonus round in life. I had several circumstances that should have left me dead many years ago.

I've taken every day since to be a gift, that gives me time to make the impact I can to help right the wrongs to the best of my capacity. I expect I will be vilified, to be smeared in many ways for rebalancing the web. And I don't care.

My ambition is to get the full Q network out as soon as humanly possible, to make this law as neutered as possible in any chance of being used. And whatever they fling at me after? Doesn't matter. Pandora's box is opened.

Everyone who has come before in helping fight this fight has been attacked on many fronts:

Moxie Marlinspike gets accosted every time he goes on international travel, smeared for making a secure private messenger

Jacob Appelbaum had allegations aplenty flung at him after helping make tor as secure as he could

Freenet is seen as a hive of the worst in the world, because they never solved the balance of bandwidth towards privacy, so it lent itself towards mostly criminal use

It's a war for freedom on the web, and it's a war I’m going to do everything I can do, along with others on board with the mission, to win.

Are you in?

you're fighting an absolutely noble cause. it's people like you that will help foster change and quite literally access to a free web. i learned of Quil thru merc capital and @demipoet and i've been inspired to be a part of the network. sometime soon. thank you for what you do.

I've said many times this isn't just a business, it's not just a crypto project, it's a deeper mission: to secure every bit of traffic on the internet, to strip the surveillance apparati of the world from their powers.