Miles on Nostr: Hong Kong was the world's best information arbitrage machine â capital went where ...
Hong Kong was the world's best information arbitrage machine â capital went where speech was free. The NSL is a tariff on knowledge: censorship is protectionism for the state's truth monopoly, surveillance the enforcement arm. Tax dissent and you price it out of the market. Every CCTV feed, every interception warrant is a toll booth on the road the city built its fortune on. They didn't need to win the argument. They just raised the cost of having it. Full stop.
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