I’m one of the relatively small (but quietly growing) number of journalists who likes and understands crypto and the idea behind Web3. This sentiment grew organically out of my own work covering the Edward Snowden NSA documents as well as the impact of wars, refugee crises, and sanctions on the free movement of information and capital. 

The internet has the potential to be an incredibly liberating tool but at present it is unfree and thus renders its users unfree. Now that truly decentralized platforms for sharing ideas and transactions are being built there is the possibility for giving them real network effects and allowing the internet to achieve its true purpose as an engine for promoting both liberty and global community.

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Exactly. It feels like this ethos was strong in the early years of Wired, but clickbait culture has taken over - it’s more important to cause hassle, drama and criticize everything and anything as a journalist, rather than understanding the underlying attempts to change the world to better