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0 pointsstcredzero6y ago0 comments

This is false. The wallet just reflects what's in the ledger, and the ledger is controlled by Facebook('s consortium). They can absolutely freeze any addresses they want.

Isn't this a transfer of power over the movement of money away from the government, and to a corporate consortium?

And they certainly will, in the name of preventing fraud and crime and terrorism.

Which will result in the US government using those accusations more.

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grey-area6y ago

Isn't this a transfer of power over the movement of money away from the government, and to a corporate consortium?

That’s kind of the point.

patrickaljord6y ago

Visa and mastercard are already banning people left and right, it is not a transfer of power though. They're working hand in hand with the government, when the US government got mad at Wikileaks during the Obama administration, visa, paypal and mastercard banned them without blinking after the government asked them to I guess.

stcredzeroOP6y ago

Massive power shifted towards corporate consortiums: Often this presages bad news on geopolitical scales.

tanzbaer6y ago

Do you have some examples?

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