That is the world we currently live in and have always lived in. isn’t it?
Cash, silver and gold have always been around. We now have crypto too, so there’s no putting that genie back into its bottle. Murders happen in the real world, not online. There are currently thousands of people offering assassin services (all of which are scams I’m sure) on the dark net.
The situation for law enforcement won’t change. They will need to use real world investigations and real world evidence in order to catch criminals who commit their crimes in the real world. Murders don’t happen digitally, encrypted communication has always been around and it has always been used by people with good and bad intentions.
I strongly disagree with this. Attempting to control (exert dominion with the threat of force) is what causes all of the problems in the world imo. I think you should replace the word ‘control’ with ‘accountability’. We need some way to hold people accountable for the harm they cause. Controlling them is just an illusion. SAFE doesn’t make any difference to our accountability systems really imo. They are as broken as they have ever been. But they can continue to operate in the same way they always have. The only laws they will find much more difficult to enforce are ones that are already a bit of a joke - copyright in digital world etc.
SAFE offers us the chance to change the power paradigm, echoing its design back into our social and political world. I’m not sure I want to live in a world where SAFE does not materialise. I find that kind Orwellian, dystopian future of ultimate, centralised control absolutely terrifying. SAFE is the best defence from that kind of future that I have ever come across.
PS we’re very off-topic, maybe a mod should move all this into another thread…? 