Alex Gladstein
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Alex Gladstein: Bitcoin, Authoritarianism, and Human Rights | Lex Fridman Podcast #231
Gladstein delineates a stark global landscape where authoritarian regimes, encompassing 53% of the population, utilize state censorship and falsified economic data to suppress negative rights while masquerading as providers of positive entitlements. He identifies Bitcoin as a critical technological counterforce that undermines these dictatorships by offering sovereign savings against inflation, enabling sanction evasion, and functioning as a "Trojan horse" that erodes state power through the greed of its adversaries. To sustain this resistance, the discussion advocates for decentralized infrastructure and federated social protocols that shift data ownership to individuals, thereby aligning self-interest with the preservation of human liberty.