Last weekend, I was amazed of how the debates were taken in the past. More of this, I was reading the Lincoln-Douglas debate about slavery mostly. Imagine being in one of those debates where each one spoke for ~2.5 hours and people gathered all the concepts about that, being documented as we know so far is evidence enough to state that people listened each other.

The main node of democracy is the book, not one book but books, about everything. People these days don't read anymore, we're fewer readers, people prefer their 1-minute-resume of news with his favorite influencer. In the modern era, democracy didn't upgrade well because technology is faster, algorithms now close each other with their political preferences. We don't talk about anything, we share each other our visions just for ensure that we believe the right choice.

The ideas in other days borned from creativity. They stopped working, bored themselfs and then..a new fresh idea. In those days, when you had a new dangerous idea, the state will come for you and your idea. Everything is censored and our ancestor had to fight in order to gain some terrain in human rights. Now? Politics confuse the free speech with speech that's free..of everything. Democracy gave them the power and will to say something with no danger of being censored, today the censorship comes in different ways: consumer protection, macroeconomic BS to balance the economy and my favorite one: speak.

Most people just talk and create nonsense in social media. Since Facebook, X, Reddit, Snapchat and other social media posts need you to create something, they're on the mission of telling you: what's happening?, tell something... and other ads; they don't care about freedom, that's blatantly BS, they need to sell ads and how can they sell if you're not talking? The speech is a product, you words are keywords in order to place this new thing that's good for you.

The political speech right now has a new brand: political marketing. See the difference? The objective of marketing according to dictionary is individuals and groups obtain what they need and want by exchanging products and services with other parties. And what's wrong to obtain what I want? Politics is talk with people you disagree, mostly you don't get what you want which should be normal, should be fine but we don't do that anymore because algorithms tought us to create content that won't offend anything or anyone. Don't get me wrong, I'm not telling you to tell everyone to offend. Otherwise, I encourage people to read the other part and try to understand from their point of view and offer alternatives with quality content, today the political debate ends with ad hominem attacks and communities reinforcing their visions without even consider if their ideas are wrong.

One reason I find Stacker News as a way to protect free speech is because authors can earn money for their content. And yes, people can come, disagree with what they're reading but in order to put your perspective, there's economic motivation of state something rational. This is why most users here don't like shitcoins and altcoins. These kind of shitcoinery don't attach with this place because here, your words have consequences.

Political instrumentation of bitcoin is normal. As a matter of fact, the whole internet is a political state. I'm not talking about your political-party-party bs that you watch in your deceased-state-supported TV station, I'm talking about real fighters, our community. They recently tried to censor Samourai for writing code through some money-laundering-scheme. And they can't, Ginger Wallet is the proof that our community will fight every inch of illogical prosecution.

I can go further but my main message to you is: fren, remember you're not a democracy anymore, social media companies and their grandparents (crap TV and radio shows) killed that long time ago. Now, where data is oil, for them you're just a tiny excell cell, a drop in the ocean. This is the infocracy, this enemy is fought with knowledge, real knowledge that come from books and forums where think is the rule, not the optionality. Social medias companies put the what do you think? in the end of each post just for the numbers, they want to sell that people put words in their news. They don't listen, they don't see you.

Stacker News is the antidote (I hope) against that marketing instrumentation. Here you can post share your agreement/disagreement and these words will have consequences. It's not free (accountability) to say stupid things but it's free (speech) to write. Keep writing folks, we need more signals and less noise.