Crypto-anarchists have largely built the digital world we see around us today: public-private key encryption, digital signatures, and crypto-currencies, the first two of which directly enabled the online shopping marketplaces that so many of us patronize today (i.e. Amazon and Ebay).
They have built the tools for us to communicate and browse anonymously, oftentimes directly challenging the State, risking ending up like Ross Ulbricht. What crypto-anarchists do is heroic and they are at the frontier of self-liberation.
5 years ago, Cody Wilson, founder of Defense Distributed, set out to make the means of self-defense accessible to anyone in the world; and he succeeded. Unsurprisingly, the federal government forced him to take down the gun files for the 3D printed, Liberator pistol, lest he face prosecution and fines.
Well, earlier this month, the State gave up and settled the long-standing lawsuit Cody and DD had been pursuing...and, as Cody said, "What's about to happen is a Cambrian explosion of the digital content related to firearms."
In other words, gun control is officially dead, not only here in the US, but anywhere in the world wherein an individual has access to an Internet connection. And the political crusaders had absolutely nothing to do with it (if anything, they held up or reversed progress).
As Cody and others have demonstrated, this fight for personal freedom requires boldness, courage, and the creativity to innovate. Crypto-anarchism is an open-source movement, and therefore, it's up to each and every one of us to contribute in whatever manner we can, even if it's simply financially supporting or spreading the word about projects that we deem worthwhile.
But, most importantly, this fight requires action. So, I ask, what will you do?
Read the full Wired article discussing the settlement here: https://www.wired.com/story/a-landmark-legal-shift-opens-pandoras-box-for-diy-guns/
