Jillian Crandall on Crypto-Colonialism [VICE TV]

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Jillian Crandall participates in VICE TV panel.

Lecturer Jillian Crandall recently participated on a panel discussion in Motherboard-VICE TV about Liberland, a self-proclaimed crypto-libertarian micro-nation in Eastern Europe.

In the discussion, Crandall talked about the community and its goals, and how it intersects with current themes around crypto-colonialism, or crypto-wealthy people trying to set up enclaves that benefit them in foreign territories.

“It stems from the foundation of a very explicit tax haven from the EU for people who are self-proclaimed techno-libertarians and right-libertarians, to form their own community,” Crandall explained. “Where I get concerned is where these systems are being rolled out as a techno-fix for a more efficient governance systems that allow its citizens to participate in a voting structure that they’re being told is a very democratic voting structure increasing efficiencies because its using computational technologies and using the blockchain (which is a very transparent, trustless system). People might say yeah, absolutely, I want to get behind that, I like how that sounds. But they might not understand that the more tokens you have, the more votes you have, the more pull you have.”

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