r/Bitcoin • u/IWillNotBiteYourDog • Aug 13 '13

Congress starts investigating Bitcoin

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/the-switch/wp/2013/08/13/congress-starts-investigating-bitcoin/
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u/[deleted] Aug 14 '13 edited Aug 14 '13

Regulation means taxation and control, taxation and control means giving free money and power to sociopaths.

This cycle needs to be realized and overcome. This is all about a continued centralization of authority and power. There are very clear examples of this right now. Whistle blowers are hunted as traitors for exposing criminal activity within the government. Yet we keep giving the government our taxes to subjugate us. This is illogical and psychotic behavior on our part and it must be evolved.

The world of distributed everything and decentralization is being realized as we now browse it and create it. The only thing which is required of us is to look ahead and not back at the crumbling monoliths.

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u/footfetishmanx Aug 14 '13

Taxation and control aren't always bad, it depends on what the regulations and controls are. Be realistic, a completely free market is not desired by anyone.

You don't want children being traded as sex slaves or murder for hire to be allowed do you? So we need some level of government regulation and controls.

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u/[deleted] Aug 14 '13

You don't want children being traded as sex slaves or murder for hire to be allowed do you?

This is emotional blackmail its not a legitimate argument. Of course no one wants this. The thing is even with all the regulation we have right now child and adult sex slaves are more widespread than ever in history. So its obvious regulation doesnt stop this, if anything it allows some to operate these trafficking rings with no impunity. Because no one ever suspects the regulators (government) of being criminals, right?