7 Comments
User's avatar
Rosy's avatar

Very sharp thought Mr. Wolfe that idea the final objective of this film success is trying to convince us that we need control and survillance from CBDC´s and not to use more free platforms far from the State eye. Some days before I was thinking , that what a coincidence that this film is having success at the exact moment there is a finantial change in the world ( in a month BRICS countries will probably offitially start with digital currency based in gold for example ) .

Expand full comment
Rosy's avatar

I mean, I thought the film was simply a distraction strategy so the people didn´t realize of the monetary changes, but as Terry shows , the reason is deeper.

Expand full comment
C E's avatar

Have a look at the Carlos Slim connection with the makers of the movie!

The name of that guy should send shivers down your spine.

Expand full comment
Charles's avatar

Even privacy-oriented cryptocurrencies (e.g. Monero and it's derivatives) are able to be regulated without any new laws passed by Congress or any Executive action. The ability for government administrative agencies to spy on a computer user's actions is already in full effect.

All computers running Windows, MacOS, Android, IOS, the Intel Management Engine, or AMD Platform Security Processor (basically all computers) already send telemetry to their respective organizations on regular actions performed on a computer. If any (non-open-source) operating system even attempts to run the Tor browser, that computer and its user are probably put on an intelligence agency's list.

Which basically means, if the alphabet boys wanted to catch all the high-profile child sex traffickers, they already would have. They don't because the culprit is connected to something political that their agency doesn't want to or isn't able to deal with.

The only potential solution to keeping our technological freedom would have to be regulating computer hardware manufacturers and forcing them to release their hardware specification so anybody could write the device driver (the code that operates the hardware in a computer) and also forcing them to remove and prevent any "security" features (like Trusted Platform Module or Secure Boot) that block regular people from implementing the driver or using the software.

The reason we only have like 4 operating systems is because Microsoft and Apple (and even Red Hat) have pushed hardware manufacturers to be more difficult to work with and the technology used to produce computer hardware is heavily patented. (BS intellectual property laws strike again).

(sorry for writing so much!)

Expand full comment
C E's avatar

Exactly! Alexander Benesch from Candor Intelligence also says that there is no such thing as privacy online no matter what hack employed. Thor has military research background like many, many other of the open source and privacy projects. It is all "controlled opposition" from the get go. I also highly recommend to watch the regularly being disappeared interview series of Steven Outtrim on something like "Burners, the power of Sillicon Valley" or so. It is a 7 part presentation/interview-style series, Outtrim made once an exit as a Sillicon Valley billionaire and visited Burning Man enthusiastically but shows how the military-industrial complex ran Sillicon Valley and all the surrounding cultural phenomena around it from the get go. Burning Man is where they hand out the new mottos for the industry and allow experimentation and self incrimination big scale. There is no genuine opposition out there in the tech world. The Bay area is a military operation since more than a century.

They also talked about how the industry is pushing away from anything that allows interference of IT guys but instead focussing on "reduce this, reduce that" and make it a "push only a button" solutions. No more coding for freedom etc..

Expand full comment
C E's avatar

Alexander Benesch from Candor Intelligence says something along the lines of that the production of the film was financed or driven by some family member of Carlos Slim who has an iron grip on telecommunications, internet providers, etc. and no benevolent effect on the local Mexican economy, a reputation of being maybe rather close to things portrayed in the movie instead and definitely not reducing the economic problems that are the root cause of things portrayed there by the way he runs his quasi-monopoly. He is also a member of shady romish brotherhoods.

Expand full comment
inzomBriac's avatar

I don't follow crypto, I'll never use it. But I've noticed they're trying to use the movie and child trafficking fears to regulate the internet. They're trying to pass a bill in the US that would limit the internet to non contraversial topics until you upload your ID "to prove you're 18" and no more being anonymous online.

Expand full comment