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Can tech billionaires replace democracy? | BBC News

The Free Republic of Liberland wants to be a truly libertarian, digital micronation that runs on the same technology as cryptocurrencies.

The unrecognised micronation is bankrolled by some of the wea

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Ridiculous people using their money that they didn't deserve in away that make the world worse
Great job billionaires!
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Heavy ‘Spinal Tap’ / mockumentary vibes. It’s beyond parody. Incredible
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@nickypoo92 From YouTube ↗ 14 Jul 2026 12
In our current world, there should be no such thing as a billionaire… hoarding that much wealth while so many suffer… it’s gross. If there is a hell, all billionaires will surely end up there
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@petersz98 From YouTube ↗ 13 Jul 2026 12
These people are nuts!
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@LosAlamos4 From YouTube ↗ 13 Jul 2026 10
Liberty for them, poverty and autocracy for the rest...
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@mk1st From YouTube ↗ 13 Jul 2026 30
6:37 I love the reporter’s “alrighty then” expression.
What a load of d-bags.
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They could of chose to be batman but they choose this 😂
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@NemoMangelk From YouTube ↗ 13 Jul 2026 122
A billionaire can't wipe their own ass without 20 assistants. I'd like to see them survive on their own.
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Surely this must be a April fools joke?
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They are not libertarians; they are autocratic corporatists.
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Peter Thiel seems to think so.
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@szpadelpl From YouTube ↗ 12 Jul 2026 38
Freedom for a few, poverty for thousands...b please. The biggest issue for them in regular society is paying taxes, while people are struggling to feed their families
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It would be fantastic if all the democracy-hating tech bros had their own “paradise” and left the rest of us alone. Long live Liberland!
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Lol. The same people who will ban your youtube account for posting what they don't like
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@damham-F47 From YouTube ↗ 12 Jul 2026 106
Tech Broligarchs are not libertarians. They are authoritarians.
And this video is a repost of an old bbc story.
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"We may have democracy, or we may have wealth concentrated in the hands of a few, but we cannot have both."
– Supreme Court Justice Louis D. Brandeis
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The guy asked a harmless question about another micronation and the “president” told him to leave. Dictatorship.
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This is dictatorship.
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These things always end up in attempts to remove age of consent law.
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I think putting all the tech bro billionairs on a little island isolated from the rest of the world is a great idea.