🎙️ My guest today is Alan Miller, co-founder of the Together Association, a nationwide civil-liberties movement ensuring the public—not technocrats—remain at the heart of politics.
If you want to learn more about what is happening in the UK and the many issues surrounding digital ids, privacy, free speech, personal rights (both physical and digital), as well as what everyone should be doing to combat government overreach in these areas, then this is a must watch/listen!
Like so many of Efrat’s non-Bitcoin guests, I was not familiar with Alan prior to this episode, but he covered so much ground on all these topics and was super interesting because he is clearly a boots on the ground, grassroots type of leader who is not afraid to make a stand and take action. He is from the UK with a background in hospitality and events, and described the origin of his struggles with UK policy makers when they started to crackdown on nightlife under the ruse of public health concerns, which then escalated to a entirely new level during Covid. He has now organized a formal movement and has got hundreds of thousands of signatures on petitions that require the government to consider their concerns. Here are a few of the key statements and points that resonated with me:
- The government project their ideas on the public because they don’t have a relationship with the public
-We need to all get together and organize against these government policies and proposals based on key principles such as free speech, privacy, autonomy to make our own decisions, and no digital ids.
- The “online safety act” is supposedly to protect children but it essentially makes us all children because we have to use biometrics to prove we aren’t children
- When you cannot access your bank, you don’t “exist”
- There are massive risks to society due to the centralization of digital records
- We need a digital bill of rights. You can’t go into someones house without a warrant and we need to have the same protections of our privacy in the digital world
- There are big battles we are facing in society and people have to understand they can make a difference by stepping up and leading
- Alan and Efrat had a great discussion on how freedom and privacy is our right and it is not “given to us”. It is ours and we don’t have to beg for it. And it is up to us to reclaim it, and we cannot have an attitude of resignation and give up.
- Efrat got into how decentralized technology such as Bitcoin and Nostr fights against the problem with the centralization of digital records and how these tools are critical to reclaim our sovereignty
- It was staggering to learn that there were over 13k arrests last year for “hate incidents” in UK which includes things like social media posts
In short, this was a really good episode and was confirmation that everything you hear about the UK is true and alarming. The entire episode was empowering and felt like a call to action. Everyone should understand what is happening in the UK (and other countries) and to start to take action now to fight against things like digital ids and protect our personal rights, digital rights, privacy, free speech and our overall sovereignty. Highly recommend this episode!!
If you want to learn more about what is happening in the UK and the many issues surrounding digital ids, privacy, free speech, personal rights (both physical and digital), as well as what everyone should be doing to combat government overreach in these areas, then this is a must watch/listen!
Like so many of Efrat’s non-Bitcoin guests, I was not familiar with Alan prior to this episode, but he covered so much ground on all these topics and was super interesting because he is clearly a boots on the ground, grassroots type of leader who is not afraid to make a stand and take action. He is from the UK with a background in hospitality and events, and described the origin of his struggles with UK policy makers when they started to crackdown on nightlife under the ruse of public health concerns, which then escalated to a entirely new level during Covid. He has now organized a formal movement and has got hundreds of thousands of signatures on petitions that require the government to consider their concerns. Here are a few of the key statements and points that resonated with me:
- The government project their ideas on the public because they don’t have a relationship with the public
-We need to all get together and organize against these government policies and proposals based on key principles such as free speech, privacy, autonomy to make our own decisions, and no digital ids.
- The “online safety act” is supposedly to protect children but it essentially makes us all children because we have to use biometrics to prove we aren’t children
- When you cannot access your bank, you don’t “exist”
- There are massive risks to society due to the centralization of digital records
- We need a digital bill of rights. You can’t go into someones house without a warrant and we need to have the same protections of our privacy in the digital world
- There are big battles we are facing in society and people have to understand they can make a difference by stepping up and leading
- Alan and Efrat had a great discussion on how freedom and privacy is our right and it is not “given to us”. It is ours and we don’t have to beg for it. And it is up to us to reclaim it, and we cannot have an attitude of resignation and give up.
- Efrat got into how decentralized technology such as Bitcoin and Nostr fights against the problem with the centralization of digital records and how these tools are critical to reclaim our sovereignty
- It was staggering to learn that there were over 13k arrests last year for “hate incidents” in UK which includes things like social media posts
In short, this was a really good episode and was confirmation that everything you hear about the UK is true and alarming. The entire episode was empowering and felt like a call to action. Everyone should understand what is happening in the UK (and other countries) and to start to take action now to fight against things like digital ids and protect our personal rights, digital rights, privacy, free speech and our overall sovereignty. Highly recommend this episode!!
thanks larry!