Facebook, the American regulators, and now Google are fighting digital coins for what they’re claiming to be the protection of everyday people from the dangers of cryptographic coins (and there is indeed a lot if risk and a lot of truly embarrassing projects), but there’s another reason — politics.

At the end of the day, Blockchain is a political technology. “Who is in control?” is the real story here.

These entities, and a few others, are those that control our everyday lives in clear and cut ways. Centralized entities control us — deciding what is allowed and what is not; what is good, and what is bad.

This space is a clear strategic danger for all these entities, which is why it’s under attack in a way it’s never been before. Severe restrictions on exchanges, on ICOs, and now advertising and exposure, are cutting off the oxygen supply to the industry.

When I see these actions, it’s becoming clearer to me that there’s no such thing as “freedom” in today’s world. There are frameworks with severe rules (in jail, for example, or North Korea), and there are frameworks with more comfortable rules (in Israel for example). But in both cases, there is no real freedom.

The American anthem reads, “the land of the free and home of the brave.” There’s courage in giving freedom, but the reality is that there isn’t, and no courage to defy the censorship that is currently taking place.

This technology fascinates the best minds because it is a social-political revolution. It fascinates others because of the money and the volatility, and this is exactly where greed works — for the ideology — and there’s nothing wrong with that.

History has shown that those who fight for freedom ultimately win. Man wants to be free; oppressors want to control. The strong want to call the shots. The problem with kings is that they’re fickle, and while a democracy doesn’t provide results as good as a benevolent dictatorship does, it protects us from a bad dictatorship.

What I’m trying to say is that we need to fight Google’s & Facebook’s control, and not just because of cryptocurrencies.

And then we’ll win if we do.