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Is Bitcoin Protected As Free Speech?
https://m.primal.net/LPxL.mp4  
 Obviously not, but it should be.

The Bill of Rights are restrictions on government, but they clearly governments don't always respect rights. Hence the Second Amendment.

I view Bitcoin as a physical defense (second amendment) of speech and property rights. I extend this view to Bitcoin related concepts, such as signing devices/software and self-custody because such tools are what gives Bitcoin its teeth.

The very concept of property rights is negated when a government is able to dictate by force what is and isn't money and how I may protect it from theft. My money is my property, and I should be free to use it for any end that doesn't violate the rights of others, which includes my speech. Bitcoin is also FOSS code, which is another free speech issue.

All of this is my opinion, of course. 
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 You’re a joke 
 Free speech, but you can go on for days br asking down the scientific field of science that those standards turn what’s on.

The punchline is the beer pricing 
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