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Canadian citizens have already had their bank accounts blocked for daring to protest against their government. [1] A German citizen had her bank accounts blocke

Canadian citizens have already had their bank accounts blocked for daring to protest against their government. [1] A German citizen had her bank accounts blocked for reporting from Donbas, presumably against what the German government regarded as being the truth. The same thing happened to her father (?!). [2] So some of the things the OP is worrying about are already happening, no “conspiracy” about it. [1] https://www.nationalreview.com/news/canada-unlocks-vast-majority-of-bank-accounts-frozen-for-supporting-trucker-convoy/ https://www.nationalreview.com/news/canada-unlocks-vast-majo... [2] https://yournews.com/2022/06/15/2360919/german-govt-labels-journalist-criminal-freezes-bank-account-over-ukraine/ https://yournews.com/2022/06/15/2360919/german-govt-labels-j...

jqpabc123 4y ago
Canadian citizens have already had their bank accounts blocked This only happened because of Canada's CBDC. Oh, wait ...
- husainfazel 4y ago
  You make a sarcastic response here but the point the parent is making is that we have these grievous injustices happening within the confines of the current system. If we move to the CBDC era without legislation to protect the privacy and human rights of citizens, our governments will have far greater capabilities to erode those rights.
  - jqpabc123 4y ago
    So allowing banks to transfer funds between each other and the Federal Reserve in real time will erode your rights? Don't look now but they do all this already using ACH --- just more slowly and inefficiently. Buckle up chicken little, your sky is going to fall because the economic case for it is overwhelming.
    - tarboreus 4y ago
      More like the political case for it.
nayuki 4y ago
By "protest" you mean terrorize a neighborhood of residents by subjecting them to continuous noise, fire, pollution, blockades, and physical harassment, right? What happened in Ottawa in Feb 2022 was way beyond the bounds of a reasonable protest.
bobro 4y ago
Do Canadians or Germans have constitutionally dictated freedom of speech like Americans do?
- paganel 4y ago
  Both Canadians and Germans are supposed to be living in a "rules-based world" which is now, supposedly, under attack. I had suspected that that "rules-based world" included the liberty/freedom of protesting against your government's policies, this is not a "freedom of speech" issue in the American sense.

jqpabc123 4y ago

Canadian citizens have already had their bank accounts blocked This only happened because of Canada's CBDC. Oh, wait ...

husainfazel 4y ago
You make a sarcastic response here but the point the parent is making is that we have these grievous injustices happening within the confines of the current system. If we move to the CBDC era without legislation to protect the privacy and human rights of citizens, our governments will have far greater capabilities to erode those rights.
- jqpabc123 4y ago
  So allowing banks to transfer funds between each other and the Federal Reserve in real time will erode your rights? Don't look now but they do all this already using ACH --- just more slowly and inefficiently. Buckle up chicken little, your sky is going to fall because the economic case for it is overwhelming.
  - tarboreus 4y ago
    More like the political case for it.

nayuki 4y ago

By "protest" you mean terrorize a neighborhood of residents by subjecting them to continuous noise, fire, pollution, blockades, and physical harassment, right? What happened in Ottawa in Feb 2022 was way beyond the bounds of a reasonable protest.

bobro 4y ago

Do Canadians or Germans have constitutionally dictated freedom of speech like Americans do?

paganel 4y ago
Both Canadians and Germans are supposed to be living in a "rules-based world" which is now, supposedly, under attack. I had suspected that that "rules-based world" included the liberty/freedom of protesting against your government's policies, this is not a "freedom of speech" issue in the American sense.