ls15
Joined 5 years ago
Joined 5 years ago
Nicer for you, but maybe not for the oncoming traffic
I would like to know why @apply does not solve the issues in the author's opinion. This is exactly the part where the author should have gone into details.
I think there is a middle ground. The bar for prohibiting things should just not be too low and I feel that it has been pushed lower and lower to crazy mom levels over the last couple of decades. It is time for the pendulum to swing into the other direction in my opinion.
People seem to realize now that banning things has negative side effects and can enable criminals.
How does one do this with social media?
Half-ass some tweets and blog posts until people stop asking?
Or try to write the smartest tweet ever and spend 12 paid hours on refining the wording?
If your government tries to stop you from doing that, it is of course much harder, but not impossible, since decentralized exchanges such as Bisq would be an option, as well as LocalMonero or regular old black markets, assuming that you have coins that someone is willing to pay for.
In 2013 the government of Cyprus decided to seize money directly from people's bank accounts. I would not call that stable.
https://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2013/03/everyth...
> China
In 2022, when some Chinese banks decided to freeze depositors accounts for shady reasons and debitors planned to protest the issue, authorities used Covid codes to block them from accessing the banks. That also does not seem stable to me.
https://www.reuters.com/world/china/china-bank-protest-stopp...