gsovereignty on Nostr: Depends what you mean by freedom and what your baseline comparison is. At the start ...
Depends what you mean by freedom and what your baseline comparison is. At the start of covid I went to Australia + NZ for safety but went back to HK pretty quickly when it became clear that all the free countries wanted to put me under house arrest and inject me with god knows what.
I've lived in China in the past and have also been in HK for a decade+ and still here now.
I was 100% on the protestors side, out in the protests every day and nearly got arrested a few times but there's a broader geopolitical game afoot and HKers (along with me personally) have been waking up to it post-2019.
The general feeling on the ground here now is that in retrospect Beijing is a blunt instrument but preferable to the US/Fed/WEF.
If you talk to people working for wechat etc and look at exactly how Beijing uses social media, nostr is not a threat to them, could actually be the opposite.
No one is going to use a transparent and open system to organize a succession movement.
What it can actually be used for is enabling a shared global consciousness that if we are lucky might help prevent world war three.
I've lived in China in the past and have also been in HK for a decade+ and still here now.
I was 100% on the protestors side, out in the protests every day and nearly got arrested a few times but there's a broader geopolitical game afoot and HKers (along with me personally) have been waking up to it post-2019.
The general feeling on the ground here now is that in retrospect Beijing is a blunt instrument but preferable to the US/Fed/WEF.
If you talk to people working for wechat etc and look at exactly how Beijing uses social media, nostr is not a threat to them, could actually be the opposite.
No one is going to use a transparent and open system to organize a succession movement.
What it can actually be used for is enabling a shared global consciousness that if we are lucky might help prevent world war three.