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The cage you walk into voluntarily | Niklas Gustafson

They will never announce the day your freedom ends. There's no ceremony, no headline, no vote you'll notice. It arrives as an app that makes life easier, a wallet that saves you time, a payment system smoother than the last. Convenience is the wrapping paper. And the reassurance is always the same word, never. It'll never be programmable, never be misused, never go further than this. But never isn't a guarantee, it's a setting, and settings get changed by whoever holds the system next. Canada froze the bank accounts of protesters without a court order. A British bank quietly closed an account over someone's politics. The machinery doesn't have to be evil to be dangerous, it just has to exist and wait for the wrong hands. So maybe hold on to your cash and your paper documents a little lon…