According to Edward Dowd, he posted on X that global lockdowns and mandates were harmful and shared ZeroHedge’s article titled 11 Signs That Our World Is Rapidly Becoming A Lot More Orwellian, highlighting rising surveillance concerns. Source: https://twitter.com/DowdEdward/status/1999025360307105871; https://www.zerohedge.com/technology/11-signs-our-world-rapidly-becoming-lot-more-orwellian For crypto traders, this reinforces the censorship-resistance narrative that is central to Bitcoin (BTC)’s design as a peer-to-peer electronic cash system intended to operate without centralized intermediaries. Source: https://bitcoin.org/bitcoin.pdf Empirical research shows that online attention and social signals correlate with Bitcoin price and volume, so monitoring sentiment and search interest around censorship and Orwellian themes can inform short-term positioning and risk management. Source: https://arxiv.org/abs/1309.1635; https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rsif.2014.0623