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   ぐぬ管 (GNU social JP管理人) (gnusocialjp@gnusocial.jp)'s status on Sunday, 25-Dec-2022 21:57:22 JST ぐぬ管 (GNU social JP管理人)
   報道: ラッセル→Social CoopへのPawooの事業譲渡 https://web.gnusocial.jp/post/2022/12/22/
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     udon (udon@social.076.moe)'s status on Sunday, 25-Dec-2022 21:57:22 JST udon

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     I'm highly skeptical of this Suji Yan.
     
     No matter how right/anarchism he claims, it doesn't change the fact that he now owns 3 of the biggest Mastodon instances, and uses Cloudflare already on mstdn.jp and mastodon.cloud... veeeeery independent from super powers.
     
     Personally I think it's scary when you think about how many assets he has, and who could be possibly behind.
     
     https://sujitech.com/
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     Suji Yan (sujiyan@mstdn.jp)'s status on Sunday, 25-Dec-2022 22:06:28 JST Suji Yan

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     @gnusocialjp very nice writing:)

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     ぐぬ管 (GNU social JP管理人) (gnusocialjp@gnusocial.jp)'s status on Sunday, 25-Dec-2022 22:10:29 JST ぐぬ管 (GNU social JP管理人)

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     コメントありがとうございます。
     
     こちらでryoさんとの会話の中で、あなたの見解も参考にさせていただきました。中国政府が背後にいるというのは、たしかに可能性としてはありえる話です。
     
     個人的には悪い人には見えませんが、悪人は善人の振りをするので注意したいと思います。
     
     https://gnusocial.jp/notice/2064449
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     ぐぬ管 (GNU social JP管理人) (gnusocialjp@gnusocial.jp)'s status on Sunday, 25-Dec-2022 22:14:56 JST ぐぬ管 (GNU social JP管理人)

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     @Sujiyan Thanks. I will post your online interview with darnell yesterday later.
     
     I think this transfer is big and important event. I think someone should record it.
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     Suji Yan (sujiyan@mstdn.jp)'s status on Sunday, 25-Dec-2022 22:28:42 JST Suji Yan

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     @gnusocialjp this is very well written and serious writing so I’d love to make some comments.
     First on political spectrum. I’m certainly people will regarded me as right wing and alt right folks usually don’t like my thoughts. Quoting EFF is quiet left imo. Also very interesting is in chinese community I was criticized being too left wing (quoting Das Kapital during interviews) and some Chinese users are kind of not comfortable with leftists (fun right?).

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     Suji Yan (sujiyan@mstdn.jp)'s status on Sunday, 25-Dec-2022 22:32:21 JST Suji Yan

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     @gnusocialjp sorry typo: will not regard me as right wing :)

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     Suji Yan (sujiyan@mstdn.jp)'s status on Sunday, 25-Dec-2022 22:36:01 JST Suji Yan

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     @gnusocialjp Then, on anarchism. I don’t know what’s the typical definition in Fediverse community’s mind. My day job is still running multiple ‘business’ - though many parts of it feels like NGO / foundation I’m still realistic on business decisions and that’s why we started 5yrs ago and I’m 26 but we managed to have a quiet large balance sheet and keep deploying money on important infra. So I’m not so called typical anarchist who think gov should go away asap :)

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     Suji Yan (sujiyan@mstdn.jp)'s status on Sunday, 25-Dec-2022 22:40:39 JST Suji Yan

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     @gnusocialjp So back a little bit of my personal background/history. I jumped into the rabbit hole and researched quiet deep into the history of Internet and more fundamentally human society. I don’t have chance to meet EFF founder John P.B (who wrote the declaration, and passed away) but managed to make friends with EFF director and learn the 1st hand history. Aaron Swartz passed away b4 I moved to US but he did an amazing speech at UIUC and I watched that yrs ago;

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     Suji Yan (sujiyan@mstdn.jp)'s status on Sunday, 25-Dec-2022 22:45:33 JST Suji Yan

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     @gnusocialjp our team talked with Sir Tim B.Lee on internet’s first days and his regrets (think abt Aaron!). I met Ted Nelson in SF b4 Covid. He’s in his 80’s but still an dreamer on computer liberty. US/EU users usually criticize me as too ‘capitalism’ and I’m quiet interesting to find out the CN and JP community think im too ‘left’?
     Besides learned first hand experiences from these pioneers I have some history with activist and journalist. Actually I did a interview in Fukushima-

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     Suji Yan (sujiyan@mstdn.jp)'s status on Sunday, 25-Dec-2022 22:54:05 JST Suji Yan

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     @gnusocialjp - in Fukushima nuclear planet at 20 yr old. Quiet risky. Guess Fukushima gov don’t like me. My activism stories such as Anti996 are available in many mainstream media (WSJ, NYT etc). These are just my little things compared to what Snowden and Assange revealed. Having mutual friends with Snowden and Assange and able to help them is my honor. Fun fact - chinese community still shitting on me working with Assange’s brother on Assange DAO.

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     Suji Yan (sujiyan@mstdn.jp)'s status on Sunday, 25-Dec-2022 23:00:48 JST Suji Yan

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     @gnusocialjp my financial story is related with Bitcoin and Ethereum; also invest in friends and my own company contributed as well. I was connected to crypto folks through Linux foundation folks. Make it short- financially I’m holding large assets. But these folks I know triggered my bad memories on nation states. FBI arrest Ethereum foundation researcher Virgil (his last trip was Osaka b4 he was arrested); EU police arrested Tornado cash dev. While scammers are still - around.

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     Suji Yan (sujiyan@mstdn.jp)'s status on Sunday, 25-Dec-2022 23:06:01 JST Suji Yan

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     @gnusocialjp These wrong doing of state gov reminds me Aaron and many ppl who suffered. I have relatively vast reading on political theories (though I don’t publish much since I’m not affiliated with any institution) from Open Society and Terranova’s accelerationism on free labor etc. (ps you may find around 3-5 my English articles on this topic) - and seems experiments on solving problems are necessary.

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     Suji Yan (sujiyan@mstdn.jp)'s status on Sunday, 25-Dec-2022 23:10:06 JST Suji Yan

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     @gnusocialjp so I’m always quiet active on these theories and active academic and industry groups. Recent ones are folks from Radical Market, talked with Glen and more with Vitalik. Another quiet familiar guy is Balaji (who’s my company’s shareholder) who wrote Network State recently. I don’t think these theories are flawless - they’re far from that. They also have the tendency of techno-utopia. (Check out Vitalik’s blog on Network state).

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     Suji Yan (sujiyan@mstdn.jp)'s status on Sunday, 25-Dec-2022 23:12:46 JST Suji Yan

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     @gnusocialjp But I’m happy to have experiments on giving autonomy to society. Fediverse imo should have autonomy and new democratic practice- that is separate and independent from national states. This is far from network state but just the beginning of network society. But I’m optimistic that in my life time (maybe in 50years) we will see such independent network state emerge.

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     Suji Yan (sujiyan@mstdn.jp)'s status on Sunday, 25-Dec-2022 23:18:29 JST Suji Yan

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     @gnusocialjp I’m blessed to be both quiet close to an elementary ‘sovereign individual’ from political and financial perspective. And I’m willing to deploy my skills and money on these things as long as it’s not harming existing communities.

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     Suji Yan (sujiyan@mstdn.jp)'s status on Sunday, 25-Dec-2022 23:19:56 JST Suji Yan

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     @gnusocialjp P.S. I’m big fan of the Ghost in the Shell, which Mask’s logo took some idea to show respect. None of you guys noticed???
     Sci-Fi usually have ultra realistic predictions. No matter ‘Metaverse’ or what. One of my friend (also token holder) https://ja.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/陳楸帆 have books in Japanese. Try if you’re interested.

     「ネットは広大だわ」?

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     Suji Yan (sujiyan@mstdn.jp)'s status on Sunday, 25-Dec-2022 23:25:29 JST Suji Yan

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     @gnusocialjp P.S. Prof Nathan and Prof Andrew are great folks and Prof Nathan have a book published with Vitalik https://nathanschneider.info/books/ . He’s also one of the first journalists cover Occupy the Wall St. he’s on Fediverse as well @ntnsndr !

     Prof. Andrew practice witchcraft; mainly so called Zero Knowledge magic. It’s kind of ‘black magic’ but it’s key to defense You-Know-Who.

     I also happened to practice witchcraft / black magic a lot of cyber self defense

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     Suji Yan (sujiyan@mstdn.jp)'s status on Sunday, 25-Dec-2022 23:26:03 JST Suji Yan

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     • Andrew Miller ??

     @gnusocialjp @ntnsndr cc magician @socrates1024

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     ぐぬ管 (GNU social JP管理人) (gnusocialjp@gnusocial.jp)'s status on Monday, 26-Dec-2022 00:20:19 JST ぐぬ管 (GNU social JP管理人)

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     @Sujiyan
     !politics First of all, I'm not good at English, so I use translation to read and write. It took me a while because you posted the next one while I was writing my reply.
     
     In addition, it is late at night around 2022-12-26T00:17+09:00 in Japan, so if I write a follow-up reply, it will be tomorrow evening, 2022-12-26T18:00+09:00.
     
     I'm new to Web 3.0 and don't know much about political theory and stuff like that. In Japan, distributed SNS and Web 3.0 have different user groups. So, if you talk about Web 3.0 to distributed SNS users in Japan, I don't think they will respond very well.
     
     I wouldn't go as far as a cyberspace declaration, but basically my political stance is closer to yours. In other words, it supports the government and the law, and emphasizes freedom of speech.
     
     Is b4 an emoji?
     
     > First on political spectrum.
     I'm sorry. I thought you were an anarchist, so I put it with the Right for convenience.
     
     Globally and in Western Europe, the left wing = emphasis on human rights and support for speech control, the right wing = patriotism and denial of speech control (support for freedom of speech).
     
     Globally, leftists support speech control because they attach too much importance to human rights such as LGBT.
     
     Probably, in China, the right wing = patriotism and support for speech control, and the left wing = emphasis on human rights and denial of speech control, so you will be a leftist in China.
     
     Since the level of human rights is different between China and Western Europe, the left and right have slightly different meanings.
     
     I feel like you haven't grasped the history of left and right, so I'll explain a bit. Since ancient times, the left wing has emphasized human rights and is rationalist, while the right wing has been patriotic and emotional. However, the left wing's emphasis on human rights has driven out the right wing, and the right wing among the left wing has repeatedly become a relative right wing.
     
     The FOSS world was originally left-centric and pro-free speech. However, with the LGBT and others as a trigger, some people have come to accept the control of speech for the sake of human rights. As a result, the traditional left has now become the right, and the advocates of human rights and speech control have become the left.
     
     Perhaps your position will be the traditional left = current right.
     
     The following post summarizes the history of the conflict between the left and right since 2010. It's in Japanese, but if you don't mind using a translation, please read it.
     
     Topic: History of Political Conflicts in Western FOSS Communities https://web.gnusocial.jp/post/2022/08/21/
     
     > Then, on anarchism.
     I don't understand the details of anarchism either. I think @ryo and @udon are close to this. I believe that the position is that natural law is the only law, denies government control, and respects individual freedom through anonymity.
     
     You said the government shouldn't go away anytime soon. It's just that cyberspace declarations and you are country agnostic. So I decided I was pretty close to anarchism.
     
     > CN and JP community think im too 'left'?
     As I explained at the beginning, in China you will be leftist, but outside of China you will be rightist or anarchist.
     
     > Actually I did an interview in Fukushima-
     I do not know about this. What are you thinking and what are you aiming for your base policy or goal? I haven't seen your coverage yesterday. Checking English interviews is hard work for me... Today was a tiring day for me because of the DDoS attack.
     
     > my financial story is related with Bitcoin and Ethereum;
     yes. Given your interest in Web 3.0, I assumed you probably made a lot of money in the crypto bubble and its business.
     
     > But these folks I know triggered my bad memories on nation states.
     Western Europe and most of the existing media are centered on the left, and the left is negative about crypto assets supported by the right.
     
     > But I'm happy to have experiments on giving autonomy to society.
     
     I support the FSF. (Associate member = Ken Senoo https://www.gnu.org/thankgnus/2022supporters.html). And for me distributed social networks are just part of the free software movement. Among them, it is a position that I personally support the GNU social of the GNU project.
     
     My goal is to make a successful business that only hires myself, and to succeed in the development of GNU social and distributed SNS. I have been active with this account since 2022-07. Personally, I am a GNU social user since 2017-10.
     
     My decentralized SNS relationship is just that. I can't even think of your network nation and political theory. I think very few people can understand that.
     
     > I'm blessed to be both quiet close to an elementary 'sovereign individual' from a political and financial perspective.
     What does this mean? Do you mean government officials? Does it mean that you are free as president of the company?
     
     However, there are people who feel threatened and distrusted that you personally have a lot of money and power and own a huge server like pawoo.
     
     > P.S. I’m big fan of the Ghost in the Shell, which Mask’s logo took some idea to show respect. None of you guys noticed???
     I think Ghost in the Shell was also popular in Japan. However, in Japan, distributed SNS and Web 3.0 have different user groups. I don't think there is much recognition of Mask Network among Japanese decentralized SNS users, so I think the response is weak.
     
     I understand your background with your explanation of things at EFF. Many decentralized SNS users in Japan seem to welcome you.
     
     However, I don't think you posted much on decentralized SNS, so people on decentralized SNS don't know you very well, and some people are skeptical. Some people are wary of your ties to the Chinese government because you are Chinese.
     
     I think it takes time for skeptics to understand. I think it depends on your future activities on decentralized SNS. I wish you good luck. I also do my best.
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     Suji Yan (sujiyan@mstdn.jp)'s status on Monday, 26-Dec-2022 00:35:28 JST Suji Yan

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     @gnusocialjp I kind of understand the left and right issue; yeah so I guess I’m hard to categorize in the new western spectrum since I have deeper study m on left wing’s accelerationism - which is not discussed in the US but have some discussion in EU.
     I also know more republican politicians than democrats. But I guess the reason is mainly my field of business. :)
     Take some sleep! No hurry on reply. Good luck on servers and pls let me know if u need any help.

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     Suji Yan (sujiyan@mstdn.jp)'s status on Monday, 26-Dec-2022 00:39:38 JST Suji Yan

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     @gnusocialjp ‘Sovereign individual’ is a book published in 90’ and it’s also a political concept. The rough definition is in the end all individuals will have sovereignty like nation states.
     In this interesting time of our world buying passport is very easy ?
     The book worth some reading. But it’s kinda old. I didn’t see any Japanese translation!!! It should be translated into Japanese at least 15yrs ago imo.

     ‘Network State’ a book also concept. Concept is close to the plain word.

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     Suji Yan (sujiyan@mstdn.jp)'s status on Monday, 26-Dec-2022 00:44:08 JST Suji Yan

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     @gnusocialjp Network State’s author is Balaji, one of my company’s advisor and shareholder. 前澤氏 talked about it recently. Have some meeting with his team in Tokyo. Overall it’s not long and good reading, this book should have Japanese version. Talking with 前澤 team to see if we can do it.
     Balaji’s view is hard to put into left or right. He clearly is big in web3 and investment (was cto of Coinbase), he wrote an interesting chapter title as CCP v NYT v BTC. ?

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     Suji Yan (sujiyan@mstdn.jp)'s status on Monday, 26-Dec-2022 00:47:06 JST Suji Yan

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     @gnusocialjp I’d say there r many thing I don’t agree in the book ? (Balaji have very limited understanding of political system out of US; how can u compare CCP to NYT ?) but I think we are on some track that will eventually lead to establish a country in the network. 鯖＝国w .

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