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Mar 5, 2023Liked by The Society of Problem Solvers

Freedom belongs to those who are bold enough to claim it, courageous enough to live it, are of hard enough substance to defend it.

All power in any hierarchy depends on the majority of people to acquiesce.

Fake news, Fake education, Fake food, Fake money------- fakest thing of all, is hierarchy.

Everyone is individually sovereign. Nobody above you, nobody below you.

A decentralized society can work, but it requires all of us to cooperate to make it happen.

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Mar 5, 2023Liked by The Society of Problem Solvers

Transparency is key. Secrecy is a cancer on our country. Citizens outside the bureaucracy must have a representative who can look into government operations. Since Congress can’t or won’t.

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Mar 5, 2023Liked by The Society of Problem Solvers

A small scale prototype, operating at the level of a town or county needs to be built to debug and promote the idea.

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You are right!!!!!!!!!!!!

That is the only way this would work or should work. Don't try to build a tree (that's the way controllists do things). Plant a seed. Then if something grows, it will produce seeds.

Freedom is always grassroots freedom.

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Jun 25Liked by The Society of Problem Solvers

If Julian Assange were really confronting the powerful, he'd be dead.

There wouldn't be a public siege on an embassy, a protracted legal battle, or a plea agreement, he wouldn't go home, he'd just be dead.

There'd be almost no media coverage at all, he would either commit suicide or have a heart attack, but most importantly, he'd be dead.

And that's why there isn't a popular decentralised whistle-blower database. The whole point of the fiasco is to cover up the far more sinister issues and engage in a limited hangout operation to reduce the psychological impact on citizens when they are confronted with the sheer scope of all the lies simultaneously.

Dissidents were already aware of most, if not all, of what they leaked. They could steadily recruit new people by introducing them to what they had accumulated, and there'd be no media rebuttals.

By turning it into public knowledge and then having Julian declare himself the only authoritative voice on legitimate leaks, they can simultaneously suppress unwanted leaks, divide and confuse the real groups with black propaganda, capture those who try to get in contact with them, prepare people to disbelieve any other “leaks”, and finally convince those on the fence to ignore it because someone else is dealing with it.

A decentralised impartial whistle-blower system can never exist in practice because an accurate one would be a legitimate threat to powerful groups. If they can't take it down directly, they will flood it with nonsense and illegal hate speech. Which they will then use as a justification to ban it, and run a public smear campaign against it.

Everything that comes from it will be denounced as the product of insanity, no whistle blowers will want to touch it with a 10 foot barge pole lest their message be diluted with a metric ton of outrageous bullshit.

That's my two cents anyway.

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Maybe. But a decentralized blockchain system isn’t so easy to stop. They tried stopping Bitcoin and it made things worse. Ever read the book The Starfish and Spider? There is a way to build higher trust systems.

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Cryptocurrency uses encryption protocols to ensure that only the key holder can use their account.

Attempts to generate fraudulent transactions or account histories can be prevented.

However, this doesn't resolve the problem of "who can we trust?".

It only pushes the envelope by removing the uncertainty of "who did what?"

A practical example of this is that hackers can use ransomware to force businesses to pay them and they can then funnel the money to terrorist groups.

The fact that these transactions are transparent and verifiable makes no difference to whether the people involved are trustworthy.

So I suggest that the best you could do is for the leaker to sign their work to identify it as theirs.

But if the majority of the users are denounced as crazy violent conspiracy theories, then that's how it will all be viewed by the majority of people and by the media.

It would only be possible for a person to grow an audience for themselves by earning their trust the gradual and natural way.

Relegating the system to essentially decentralised uncensorable pseudonymous blogging.

Now, I'm not saying that wouldn't be a useful thing, because it would. It just isn't as great or momentous as I think many people would hope.

The problem is that trust is earned by saying mostly what people already believe, and since the government controls their childhood education, it won't be possible to appeal to the majority of them.

If you really want a big movement, it is necessary to cut off the early childhood brainwashing that everyone receives first.

The other issue is algorithmic discrimination. The sheer quantity of things that will be available will necessitate filtering, and this will be a point of weakness for impartiality.

Popular posters could end up drowning out the unpopular, and this will result in new people feeling that they aren't getting any attention.

As far as I'm concented, this problem is evident on all social media platforms.

The issue can be resolved somewhat by providing people the tools to alter their own algorithm, however most are technology illiterate and won't be able to use it to its full extent.

Secondly the system can pay people with virtual currency, like BAT, to read new posts. Then they can use these tokens to unlock better, more engaging or more popular posts.

This ensures that new people will have a chance to develop an audience.

The third is what substack does with comments, chat and notes.

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Mar 5, 2023Liked by The Society of Problem Solvers

This "4th Branch" is exactly what is needed. I would like to know at what stage in this endeavor we are at? The Criminal Elite will be fighting this to the bitter end and since the sheep fight against their own interest the whole bunch of them will be trying to stop this from happening! The killing of radical ideas and people is a standard for these Mass Murdering Sociopaths so if we can actually gain membership in this form of overcoming the corruption there will need to be some way to protect us. While we could be relatively anonymous the Criminal system put in place to go after the citizens of this country would eventually find most if not all of us. The only way I can see to get some type of lawful protection is to use the oath that each and every member of the military and veteran has taken to protect this country from a corrupt government. We would need to give a "Direct Order" for protection of the members of the Organization as there isn't a method that works when dealing with psychopaths. This leaves no room for discussion and bullshit excuses from the Criminal Elite. Anyone who is against a proper means of making this happen is to be considered "A Hostile Foreign Entity" as if they are against We The People having control of our own government they are just that!

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Mar 5, 2023Liked by The Society of Problem Solvers

Decentralized is definitely important, so the Establishment couldn't just stamp it out all at once by "losing" some live ordinance or orchestrating a toxin spill or something in the right place.

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Mar 6, 2023Liked by The Society of Problem Solvers

Great to see the subtle but important emphasis that this new set of institutions 'won't really be part of government at all.' What we need is a mutually regulating triangle between government, corporations and this new set of 'people-powered institutions', which ultimately should hold BOTH to account.

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Mar 5, 2023Liked by The Society of Problem Solvers

Have you heard of secure drop?

https://securedrop.org/overview/

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But surely, creating even more gov't frustrates the goal of transparency. IMHO the solution is to remove the incentives for corruption, or at least the ability of the rich to prey upon the non-rich.

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Who is creating more government? In America the people are supposed to be the government. Our terminology here seems to be getting mixed up. Creating a “4th branch of government” would 100% exist outside of government. The 4th branch is just we the people, decentralized but organized

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Exactly and Exactly what needs to be done!

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If we ARE the gov't, we should get paid according--as much as our so-called "representatives" pay themselves, AT LEAST.

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Perhaps a combination of open source code, blockchain and AI data input/output.

Priority is to keep sources prvacy - secure.

How to verify source.

How to verify data.

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Noble concept and feasible, however, holding cheaters and criminals responsible requires something akin to the judicial system. Unfortunately, that has been infiltrated and compromised beyond repair by the Epstein clientele. Until they are held accountable for their crimes, we are feckless.

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Huge problem here, you are trying to introduce some check and balances in to a system made of chimps. Nothing will work in the long run if large portions of the population are stupid.

My own thoughts are outlined here:

https://quberoot.wordpress.com/

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The obliteration of innocence, ie the realization the truth teller is hunted by an omnipotent invisible deep state predator. The end of our reliance upon human morality - disillusionment a fait accompli, when the Grey Lady can not be trusted to print the truth.. All for the ‘greater good’ á la Three Days of The Condor. “You have not much future there. It will happen this way. You may be walking. Maybe the first sunny day of the spring. And a car will slow beside you, and a door will open, and someone you know, maybe even trust, will get out of the car. And he will smile...”

Spirit crushing stuff. We are created to share love, but there is no reflecting the Creator when we leave Him out.

“I am the way, the truth and the life.” ~John 14:6

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Can you not walk both with God and your neighbors at the same time?

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I'm a Christian persecuted, 10 years on the street and in exile

Revelations from the BIBLE against dictatorships

https://andreasalvatorebuffa.substack.com/p/revelations-de-la-bible

Fake doctor - Fake medical

https://andreasalvatorebuffa.substack.com/p/fake-doctor-fake-medical

VIRUSES, REALLY THE ACCUSATIONS

https://andreasalvatorebuffa.substack.com/p/viruses-really-the-accusations

Covid, ANDREA SALVATORE BUFFA COMPLAINT OF 05/05/2021

https://andreasalvatorebuffa.substack.com/p/covid-andrea-salvatore-buffa-complaint

COVID, THE SERUM WEAPON, NUREMBERG

https://andreasalvatorebuffa.substack.com/p/covid-the-serum-weapon-nuremberg

Secret Service a plausible dialogue

https://andreasalvatorebuffa.substack.com/p/secret-service-a-plausible-dialogue

We must demand the visura, the publication of the assets of the high offices, of the judiciary by virtue of transparency

https://andreasalvatorebuffa.substack.com/p/we-demand-the-visura-the-publication

Insects as weapons of destruction

https://andreasalvatorebuffa.substack.com/p/insects-as-weapons-of-destruction

If instead of bullets or atomic bombs the obligatory vaccine for everyone with toxic

https://andreasalvatorebuffa.substack.com/p/if-instead-of-bullets-or-atomic-bombs

The CIA and its massacre protocol

https://andreasalvatorebuffa.substack.com/p/the-cia-of-massacres

Earthquakes and chemtrails in the sky lately

https://open.substack.com/pub/andreasalvatorebuffa/p/earthquakes-and-chemtrails-in-the

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