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Consider yourself lucky. You don't live in places like Russia, China or Canada, where your credit cards and bank account can be frozen or even confiscated witho
by gorwell 5y ago
Consider yourself lucky. You don't live in places like Russia, China or Canada, where your credit cards and bank account can be frozen or even confiscated without due process. For some living under these regimes, crypto is the only wealth they've been able to retain.
- AlexandrB 5y ago> or Canada Come on now. You may not like the due process that was followed, but it was still due process (as-in following the letter of existing law). By this logic the US should also be included on your list because of civil asset forfeiture.
- gorwell 5y agoThey invoked the Emergencies Act to bypass due process. `When Prime Minister Justin Trudeau decided a week ago to invoke his country’s Emergencies Act for the first time in Canadian history to quell the unrest, it gave the police sweeping new powers to go after the finances of the protesters.` https://www.nytimes.com/2022/02/22/world/americas/canada-protest-finances.html https://www.nytimes.com/2022/02/22/world/americas/canada-pro... As for the US, I agree they belong on the list because of civil asset forfeiture.
- merely-unlikely 5y agoYes, yes it should.
- s1artibartfast 5y agoSame with Russia and China, or Ukraine - they have a process as well. In the case of Canada, the process was the PM tells the banks to freeze the funds.