The Primary Role of Cryptography in Human Rights Struggles

The inability to pay for media without identifying ourselves is a quiet, profound change to the composition of our discourse. The primary role of cryptography in human right struggles is not to exit from society, but to provide a robust, temporary shield for those who would reform it. We won't solve this problem with immutable, public block chains, where a single screw up will eventual re identify all pseudonymous transactions. To be honest, i don't know how to solve it. Banning surveillance advertising and replacing it with contextual adds would be a start, but just a start.