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tomjen3 on May 6, 2012 | parent | context | favorite | on: Reddit's TestPAC is campaigning to defeat Lamar Sm...

Also it has guns.

Of course if bitcoin and freenet became the way to interact and do financial transactions over the internet then those guns will be all but ineffective at anything.

antidoh on May 6, 2012 [–]

All the govt would have to do is shut off the internet via the telcos and backbones. They don't need the internet, we do.

tomjen3 on May 7, 2012 | [–]

No the businesses which contribute to the campaign funds do.

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