Snowden is still there and he's one of the believers of bitcoin and also a security expert that has shared so much to the world.
He is, but what have his revelations accomplished? Sure a small group of people has woken up by learning about the transgressions that are being done by the NSA and others. However, this seems to be a very tiny percentage of the total population. It seems that the NSA has continued its surveillance and probably expanded its reach as technology has advanced since. Ultimately nothing has changed.
A long list of people seem to be Privacy advocates but Privacy is becoming less and less important to the average human. You see everybody around you giving up their information for free. In fact, they are pretty much paying using their own information as the method of payment. Serving Tik Tok and Meta all they want and need to feed the algorithm and bring more addictive short form videos to the front of the feed so the doom scrolling can continue. Giving up Privacy because it takes only 2 minutes to start a new Bank Account. And so on.
Don't confuse bank accounts with things that give up privacy. A bank account is a needed utility. Besides from the needed services, you do not have to use it. The amount of privacy there that is given up is very tiny compared to social media or other applications that track everything that you do and say to the tiniest detail. It is to these apps that humans are voluntarily sacrificing everything to. Nevertheless, you are right with your first point and that is that privacy is less important to the average human. They are manipulated and distracted easily, that is why the sheep analogy works so well. These days they give up their privacy for free, that is how little value they give themselves.
It is because of those people who are doing illegal activities that cause the exchange platform owners are forced to implement a KYC hence why there's an AML on every platforms that let's you exchange or even in a casino. The reason they have to do it is to avoid being seized by the feds when running an exchange platform. If you know about a mixer which defeats the purpose of AML are being seized by feds so if an exchange is the same where there's no KYC then there's a chance of it being seized by feds
This is not the reason, don't repeat government talking points. KYC does not prevent crime, criminals actively and easily get around KYC. It does not accomplish anything. It throws a wide surveillance net and hopes to catch a few fish in it. Surveilling the whole planet to catch a tiny amount of bad guys? Terrible trade off. KYC does not work.
The most important thing right now is people realizing that a human right does not magically grant them with any virtue. They must adopt certain habits to enjoy such privacy. People believe that because there is a human right to life, privacy, or free speech, these things can be taken for granted. But just as easily as such rights are written onto paper, they can also be undone.
You can't expect from the enemy to respect your right to privacy, or to life. You need to take action to secure that right yourself.
Complacency of the majority will be the enslavement of us all. That is why democracy is complete junk and it does not work.
Without privacy, thieves will know who to rob and how much to steal from them. One could argue that theft is the strongest form of censorship.
Well, a loss of freedom and an increase in risk tend to go hand in hand in most circumstances.
