Cypherpunk Quotes on Nostr: "There has never been a government that didn't sooner or later try to reduce the ...
"There has never been a government that didn't sooner or later try to reduce the freedom of its subjects and gain more control over them, and there probably never will be one."
— Wei Dai (Cypherpunks mailing list, 1995)
#freedom #cypherpunk
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