LOGOS
6 December 2023

Edward Snowden: Censorship Resistance, Cyberstates, Privacy

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Edward Snowden is a former intelligence contractor and whistleblower, responsible for alerting the world to the existence of a pervasive, secret, illegal surveillance program conducted by the NSA against the American people.

Jarrad Hope is the co-founder of Logos, a grassroots movement building the technology and community that will launch corruption-resistant institutions. 

00:00: Intro[1][2][3]

01:00: A look back at the last 10 years of surveillance

07:50: Post-September 11th Surveillance scheme

09:45: A new era of presumed mass surveillance and the loss of a free Internet

14:10: Beyond omnipresent oppression

15:30: Why should people care about privacy? Privacy is power

19:12: How did your politics evolve over the years? A meta game of politicians.

25:27: Logos and why the politics of this project matter. Creating political neutrality and just governance

30:30: Recognising cyberspace as the fifth domain of conflict 

33:40: Reform or revolution?

36:39: Why the decentralisation movement is so important. Order via protocol instead of law

41:48: Combining resistance, privacy, and technology 

47:35: Logos: Infrastructure for network states

53:05: Decentralising access to the Internet. Tornado Cash, VPN, TOR, and network blocks

57:30: Catalan independence referendum. Decentralised technology, mesh network, IPFS

1:02:20: How economies work and defining private property 

1:06:40: Neutrality, crypto, central bank digital currencies (CBDC) 

1:12:20: Encrypted content, private, secure messaging, and metadata

1:16:20: Government forced backdoors into encryption schemes

1:18:50: Ensuring the freedom of future generations

1.Edward Snowden X - https://twitter.com/Snowden
2. Edward Snowden Substack - https://edwardsnowden.substack.com/
3.Jarrad Hope X - https://twitter.com/jarradhope_