why?

I’m sure you’re right, but it helps for a normie to privacy/security like my self, and viewer engagement.

You’re right in that this isn’t a backdoor. Its an exploit hes calling a backdoor.

This is exactly why he got in trouble, because he couldn’t just put the word “most” or “many” in there, and tried to paint all Jewish folks as genocide-supporters

He specifically said 80-90%, he also called them Zionists not genocide supporters which has a broader definition, anywhere from supporting Israeli state in Palestine to believing Jewish people should have some kind of sovereignty.

Nobody seems content with critically thinking - “who would someone behave in this manner?” is a question you should ask yourself

You and the mod are distorting this persons comment from what he said with this manor of thinking. Then you want to block the discussion from even happening that can disqualify it. Just let him get either downvoted to hell or dunked on in the comments. I dont see the point of the intense censorship on behalf of these ten fifty whatever percent of american jews that will be slighted that their religion has been conflated with zionism when there is literally a star of david on the f35 bombing children in now lebanon.

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First, I’m new to actively using lemmy, so I’m gradually learning the etiquette on here, and how it differs from other forums. Also, I did not know the downvote button is disabled on your instance, so thank you for the context.

It feels a bit too reddit-like to have open trolls commenting in our communities, but constantly being down voted to the bottom of threads

Sure, if they are actual trolls, and we can define that together in this thread or as a community. However, this user was an active commenter in several news/palestine-related communities, and lets just be honest, was not trolling or derailing the discussion. He disagreed with the OP (and to an extent I share a similar view) that Judaism and American Jews have deep sympathies to Israel, and this manifests in material structures in the United States (synagogues, community orgs, PACs, etc)

OKAY PAUSE

if that last statement is ban worthy because its trolling or “anti-semitism” , how the hell are we supposed to actually have this debate? Then this isn’t trolling and this is where active discussion and voting should take place in the thread. Keep in mind, the person who flung accusations was the mod of the community when he said " You’re not an anti-semite are you?"

Thats why I think this is blatant mod abuse because there seems to be this unnecessary over-moderation and that’s exhibited by the guy continuing the convo in this thread which is unrelated to the community. Overall this fractures discussion across the entire website, not just the individual instance.

Last, you’re going to have to prove the commenter has a repeated history of posting out-of-topic or bait. Not just a singular instance of a disagreement in perspective, and calling out a mod for a flimsy argument using his own rhetoric.

I associate the words “oppression” and “repression” with actions performed by states or non-government authorities.

I’m not going to continue this discussion, since its off-topic.

So, preceding to not follow into the same trap as the remainder commenters here have made of addressing the content and not the mod action…

You ban someone for making a comment (because you disagree with them) just to have the discussion continue in another board/community (this thread).

Whats was the point in banning them then?

Just let their comment remain and get down-voted to the floor of the thread - that’s the point of voting on a comment. Now the discussion has been pulled out of the community that had informed subscribers, and into one that has broadly zero overlap with c/palestine.

BPR - Bait-Provoked Reaction: That mod probably overreacted in charged situation, or due to being baited.

The Jewish people remain an oppressed minority…

Can we really count Jews as “oppressed” in 2026?

IMO, they are arguably the most privileged minority in the west with their proximity to whiteness, specific codified anti-hate-crime/“antisemitism” laws, and a literal ethnostate guaranteed by imperialist hegemony.

Yeah I want to, and been discussing it with my FIL, but I’ve been having a hard time finding what hardware would be best. I used to mine Ethereum back in 2017.

Practically, I agree with you but the definition of a Central Bank Digital Currency is a currency issued by the country’s treasury. Maybe they come up with some hybrid scheme where the Fed will credit Circle’s accounts and then they print more USDC, but that would for sure require legislation and be an immense responsibility given to a private company.

DAI/USDS are what you’re looking for in a permission-less stablecoin, but unfortunately the founder has back peddled to chase making money over principles. I believe folks have been turning towards a project called https://www.liquity.org/ but its no where the size and pedigree that MakerDAO was.

In my experience, the bigger issue is folks just completely ignore OPSEC once they get on signal.

The centralized component is pretty concerning. Imagine if protests like in Iran earlier this year were to occur in the States. The Feds would immediately seize or DDOS those servers during nationwide unrest, before cutting the internet which is basically an inside out panopticon.

EOD it depends on your threat model. You’re probably not on Signal if your life depends on it anyway.

Plus, its always useful to not have my texts immediately read and sent to advertisers.

You dont have to give it your cell number.

https://theintercept.com/2017/09/28/signal-tutorial-second-phone-number/

https://theintercept.com/2024/07/16/signal-app-privacy-phone-number/

My bad, I think I misread your comment, but yeah for the end-user it would be basically like what we have now already with digitized USD, perhaps more useful, since payment processors could allow you to send it on a blockchain and pay with VISA. The way I’m viewing CBDC’s is a hopefully more robust upgrade on SWIFT.

Biggest difference is it would be a currency actually printed by the treasury on a blockchain instead of backed by dollars held by a mysterious company based in the carribean (Tether) or an American FinTech company (USDC), or algorithmically pegged by the native blockchain token (USDS/DAI). If public, it would mean money printing would be a lot more transparent, but I seriously doubt a CBDC would be on a public blockchain. It might be easier/faster for banks to do REPO loans and crediting accounts in emergencies. Theoretically, it makes UBI feasible too.

To be honest, I’m far more interested in what a BRICS CBDC would look like. The Unit would end the petrodollar.

Yeah but then you have to transactions on the L2. Please correct me if I’m wrong.

I know this isn’t the case for RAILGUN on Ethereum, but I’m curious to what the bitcoiners are up to.

You’re already giving up your privacy by having a banking account. There’s already no privacy if you’re using paypal, cashapp, zelle, etc or any tap-to-pay. You have to go really out of your way to avoid KYC in 2026.

I meant payment processors like zelle or paypal, or banking apps. Obviously you can just use crypto. That’s not going away.

I don’t know because no major central gov has made one. Stablecoins arent CBDCs.

I know the OP asked the hypothetical, but CBDC’s don’t have to replace cash altogether. Also, a CBDC account can be tied to a card. It doesn’t necessarily have to be solely internet-based in principle either.

To your points about internet connectivity: I get it, but most people and merchants are using credit card terminals or tap-to-pay at this point anyway. Even in these rare scenarios where the merchant lost connectivity, you could still send the money over to the person on your battery powered phone with a digital transfer.

My point is that you as an end-user won’t notice much change if the federal government were to transfer their treasury systems to a national blockchain instead of centralized servers and payments via VISA. The issue is in the implementation, and I’m almost certain they will fuck it up and/or have some shady company (re)build it.

Bubba, any intermediary is going to instantly comply with the government laws. They can already allow/disallow any transaction, freeze your account etc. Shit the banks and payment companies we use are likely way more compliant and strict than if it was directly operated by the government because the government is being defunded and breaking down.

Monero XMR is the last bastion of “anonymous” transactions. The issue is actually obtaining it privately.

They’re going to tax/fine you however they want. This is already reality. Its no different from having a bank account or making transfers via Paypal or Zelle. Our currency is already heavily digitized and centralized by governments. Transitioning to CBDCs would just be making the back-end more robust, which I’m personally in favor for. The technology for this has been worked on for about a decade now.