Vitalik Buterin Says Surveillance Is Not “Dystopian”: It Is a Real Shift in Political Power

TLDR: Buterin says calling surveillance “dystopian” without context fails to persuade those outside the privacy debate.  Iran’s model shows how dictatorship plus surveillance lets regimes survive with almost no public coalition support.  Western surveillance differs by projecting medium control globally, reaching individuals far beyond its own borders.  Buterin calls for basic internet access of 1 [...]

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