I don’t know if you are serious, but the idea that people have nothing to hide comes from Nazi Germany. Also, lgbtq+ people may need to hide from their family without being cut from communities, just to give an example.
For a philosophical or political idea, I think yes, the source matter. The dispariton of the state ain’t the same between an anarchist and a nazi (they were, too), because it will have an impact on the mean you want to do it.
But your family accepted you, how about some transphobic parents for their kid, how would this play out in your book? Cut off from any support? Beatten up to shit because they looked at wiki trans? Sure, the more open the better,but right now this is not the situation.
How does that apply to someone using it to pay for VPN service? Who cares what other people are using it for.
Also, many of those “criminals” are using it to buy shit like HRT because they can’t get it where they live. Some others just want to get cheap cannabis gummies in states where it’s already legal.
You shouldn’t paint with such a broad brush.
USD is just as private, unless you’re tracking serial numbers on bills, and even then… It would be like saying you don’t use cash because it’s used by criminals. Makes no sense.
USD is used by everyone and sanctioned by the US government. Monero is used almost exclusively by criminals and privacy focused people, who are probably criminals too.
Hot take, but I’m probably already a fascist in your eyes: If buying HRT and using it is illegal where you live, don’t do that, even using monero or other closed (closeness is the oposite of openness and is more neutral term than privacy) money. They, who disallow buying it will eventually notice that something is different with you and you will face punishment.
This applies to people paying for VPN, because by using the currency, they legitimize it.
If buying HRT and using it is illegal where you live, don’t do that, even using monero or other closed (closeness is the oposite of openness and is more neutral term than privacy) money.
Imagine living in 2026 and thinking that legality = morality.
I wonder if you’d have said the same thing if I said people were using it to buy insulin.
Thinking it’s ok to deny people the medication that they need because they need to use a privacy coin to buy it? Nice.
I’m just going to skip over the part where you call people criminals for being concerned about privacy. Ostensibly that means you’re against VPNs in general then, right? Want to try to defend that one?
No, I don’t think it’s a good idea, because someone will eventually notice that you’re using it and you will face legal consequences.
I didn’t say anything about people concerned about closennes being criminals just because of that. I said that those 2 groups likely overlap in a significant portion.
Monero is anonymous, so it makes sense.
It’s still crypto, with all the downsides of crypto.
Do you have a better way of making anonymous digital payments?
Just don’t?
Privacy benefits only criminals anyway
That’s a profoundly pro tyranny statement
I don’t know if you are serious, but the idea that people have nothing to hide comes from Nazi Germany. Also, lgbtq+ people may need to hide from their family without being cut from communities, just to give an example.
The source of an idea doesn’t change its value.
If my family didn’t accept the fact that I’m aroace, I would forget about them and change my life.
Openness solves all the problems that privacy solves, and does so better.
Thats an insane amount if privilege to think that it applies to everyome everywhere.
For a philosophical or political idea, I think yes, the source matter. The dispariton of the state ain’t the same between an anarchist and a nazi (they were, too), because it will have an impact on the mean you want to do it.
But your family accepted you, how about some transphobic parents for their kid, how would this play out in your book? Cut off from any support? Beatten up to shit because they looked at wiki trans? Sure, the more open the better,but right now this is not the situation.
Such as what in this case? Definitely not power consumption if we’re talking about Monero.
High potential of being used by criminals, being detached from the state and privacy.
How does that apply to someone using it to pay for VPN service? Who cares what other people are using it for.
Also, many of those “criminals” are using it to buy shit like HRT because they can’t get it where they live. Some others just want to get cheap cannabis gummies in states where it’s already legal.
You shouldn’t paint with such a broad brush.
USD is just as private, unless you’re tracking serial numbers on bills, and even then… It would be like saying you don’t use cash because it’s used by criminals. Makes no sense.
Going backwards from your argumentation.
USD is used by everyone and sanctioned by the US government. Monero is used almost exclusively by criminals and privacy focused people, who are probably criminals too.
Hot take, but I’m probably already a fascist in your eyes: If buying HRT and using it is illegal where you live, don’t do that, even using monero or other closed (closeness is the oposite of openness and is more neutral term than privacy) money. They, who disallow buying it will eventually notice that something is different with you and you will face punishment.
This applies to people paying for VPN, because by using the currency, they legitimize it.
Imagine living in 2026 and thinking that legality = morality.
I wonder if you’d have said the same thing if I said people were using it to buy insulin.
Thinking it’s ok to deny people the medication that they need because they need to use a privacy coin to buy it? Nice.
I’m just going to skip over the part where you call people criminals for being concerned about privacy. Ostensibly that means you’re against VPNs in general then, right? Want to try to defend that one?
Boot licking loser.
No, I don’t think it’s a good idea, because someone will eventually notice that you’re using it and you will face legal consequences.
I didn’t say anything about people concerned about closennes being criminals just because of that. I said that those 2 groups likely overlap in a significant portion.
It’s a good idea when the alternative is that person ending their life.
Your words.
And again, what if it was for insulin instead?