The media is manufacturing consent for censorship of Telegram and presumably other secure messaging platforms.

Secret service about as useless as the TSA.

Bitcoin isn’t private, you can see how much BTC a sender or recipient is holding and what transactions they’ve made. I’d argue that without privacy mitigations such as a mixing service it’s even less private than credit cards. They should have gone with Monero instead.

The IRS always says they’re gonna target the wealthy, but most of their audits are lower income people because they’re easier targets.

https://hoffmantactical.com/designs/super-safety/

The problem is that some people are quick to call things Nazi and white supremacist, when it’s actually just something they disagree with.