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Turns out it can go both ways!

@@ZcashMedia I guess your right, though I cannot think of any big privacy breaching legislation passed by Democrats in the last 70 years or so. Only big ones that come to mind are Truman making the NSA, and Roosevelt making the FBI, but that was back in the 50's and 1900's respectively. Where as the Republicans got the Patriot Act, PRISM, American Privacy Rights Act of 2024, and all the Republican Legislatures trying to pass laws to keep people in their state from getting health services outside of it. When I look to see what the democrats are trying to do recently, it appears they are trying to strengthen privacy laws in ways that make it more difficult for government and businesses to surveil you. If you have any examples of legislation that democrats have passed or introduced that does breech privacy, please enlighten me of it. I get your point, when it is your party that is doing things to breach privacy one tends to be more accepting of it. However, perhaps a better analysis is how each party tries to undermine privacy, specifically which rights, what protections on those violations are in place, etc. I know there is a divide in what the left and right values, I imagine there is a difference here as well. It may be less that people are accepting of things when it is their party that is doing it, and more people are more accepting of different ways that their privacy is invaded. What may make an interesting study is to take all the privacy policies and laws in the last 20-30 years that were introduced and/or passed sort them in categories and then present them to people in the following ways: * Take a subset of the policies and present them without any indication of which party passed. Record which people thought were alright and which were not. * Take a new and unique subset of the policies and present some swapping which party presented the law, for the rest keep the party affiliation the same. Record which people thought were alright and which were not. In this subset make sure to include some more extreme laws with swapped party affiliation. I am really curious what this study would find. Does this truly divide on party lines, or does it divide more on the how and safeguards of the law?

Thank you for the thorough reply! It would be great to do an analysis like you suggest. It is true about the PATRIOT Act being done under republicans - although Democrats didn’t (couldn’t?) undo it when it was their turn. There is also the Clipper Chip/Crypto Wars in the ‘90s when Dems were in power iirc. Another point is that often what ordinary people prefer is not what their government does. I wouldn’t be surprised if republican identifying citizens weren’t onboard with many of the policies made by Republican governments, for example.

Glad to hear that.

Right - that’s the idea of Web 3.0 led by the inventor of the web Tim Berners-Lee. Check out this video for more on that: ruclips.net/video/E9GYRbuNIFk/видео.html

That’s an interesting point. I think it’s important to limit the collection of data too, for example to what is allowed via a warrant.

@ZcashMedia True, unfortunately, many times, the government no longer uses warrants. They just simply call up their friends at Google, MS, Comcast, AT&T, etc, and get a favor. These companies not only don't provide much protection of data, but sale it, market it, and give it to governments. It makes sense for them to do it as if they help the government, then they have a friend who might just call a competitor before a senate sub committee or get favorable legislation or contracts The system has become corrupt because the government has amassed too much power and control. Reading about the government getting secret codes from manufacturers to open safes, tracking all newer cars, accessing cloud storage for things like security cameras, etc is scary shit. All in the name of "homeland security".

Good points! Data protection has a long way to go. New video coming out on that soon!

Glad you liked it!

Thank you!

I think it was because zero knowledge proofs were not available yet to allow encryption of transaction information. And Bitcoin developers decided not to add privacy when they could.

@@ZcashMedia No one knew where it came from but later alleged that the government agency had to do with it! After all, they prefer digital over cash as it gives them ultimate control!

Well, payment processors are more like “confidential” because the information is limited to certain companies (still not great). Bitcoin is more transparent than that because the information is available to anyone with an internet connection who can read the Bitcoin blockchain. So Bitcoin is not private, nor confidential.

@@ZcashMedia the only people who would benefit from never having a banking history or identity at all are scammers. Crytpo isnt gonna decentralize anything because the value and trust in the US dollar is backed by the military and every crypto is just a someone with alot of money boosting the value by transferring their own usd and then once others put their money into the coin the original investor leaves with his majority stake. Bitcoin wont because the creator died and his account will never sell meaning majority of bitcoin wont even be used for transactions.

Zero knowledge 💩? Jk I'm just poking you😂

While Bitcoin may serve a purpose as a store of value as long as enough people believe the price will go up, it will likely never provide good financial privacy, which is a huge component of being a freedom-enhancing technology like crypto is supposed to be. Luckily Zcash is on the road to this.

Yes!

Using coinjoin like he does, or using non-systematic privacy is pointless. More or less same as pseudonimity of BTC. Look at spies work. A trade is like an information transmission: it has value ONLY if 1/ no one can tell the content of the exchange (ever) and 2/no one can tell who participated in the exchange and 3/ no one can tell that an exchange took place. If you miss any of those 3, sooner or later you'll be trapped. Vitalik is no lead on privacy. (good work on making video, it pump zcash token, but what matter in the end is if the boat can survive the iceberg).

Needs to be made more convenient for normal people! But have to start somewhere.

Thanks for the sub!