- cross-posted to:
- StopTech@lemmy.today
- cross-posted to:
- StopTech@lemmy.today
What if you woke up tomorrow and completely lost access to your bank account, credit cards, PayPal, and Venmo, all because of something you posted online?
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For the USA and the rest of the world, Brazil has its own payment system as far as I know, and Europe is making one already, so jokes on you. Correct me if I’m wrong.
This is why I liked the idea of Bitcoin in the beginning. (Before it became what it is now).
I still like Monero. It would make shit like this impossible to touch by authoritarian idiots.
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Class action lawsuit. Their terms and conditions when I opened my accounts did not mention this and further, updating those terms and conditions and then closing my accounts is not justifiable. Since I’m likely not the only one they will do this to, it sounds to me like they need to learn a lesson.
My online campaign to point out every time one of their executives has said anything sus would be legendary.
If things were shut down to prevent access to anything, I don’t think legal action is possible, or even the path to take. Probably why it would never be done that quickly or drastically. The art of oppression is knowing the limit of what people will put up with and not crossing the line, but moving the line slowly. Go too fast, the commons get upset and find their torches.
Pretty sure having a bank account is like an EU right, so banks can’t just close your account willy-nilly over some online post.
Yes, but VISA would hold the keys to the infrastructure that let’s you use it in in a modern world.
WERO might be the EU alternative.
WERO…xD It sounds like a duck, it looks like a duck, oh, it’s a duck!
Except for maybe international online payments, there are already alternatives, so I don’t quite see how.
Not the banks, but the countries. The EU is getting the EU Wallet, and it must be linked to at least one bank account. This will allow other EU countries to enforce penalties and freeze accounts, seize funds, or whatever. Cool, right? 🤮
Most likely it is an EU right, but violations would require a lot of effort to straighten, so I wouldn’t be surrised if they do sometimes close accounts willy-nilly
Without having watched the video, but having an idea of what it’s about given seeing a few places and creators I follow being sanctioned because the payment processors getting butthurt, I think it’s worth mentioning crypto and direct competitors to the Visa and Mastercard mono(duo?)poly.
On crypto, if issue is that it burns too much energy, afaik generally new technologies are like that, improvements to consumption happening over time.
And about direct competitors, Russia made one from what I read, Brazil has Elo, and I think the EU was introducing their own recently. All 3 countries/country-like territories with their own problems, but I think it’s a worth idea to copy and improve upon.
Also fomenting use of physical cash is a good idea too, me thinks.
I think you’re confusing Elo (just a local company) with Pix, a government created interbank payment system. And from what I know of Pix, yes, we should all definitely copy that.
That’s why we Germans love cash. By the way, all it takes is for the government to face a crisis… Just look at China and its real estate crisis. Many people don’t use cash anymore, and they ran into problems when they couldn’t make digital payments or withdraw money, etc.
The vocal fry made that video unwatchable, jfk. I think the video is about financial censorship. They have been warning about this for more than a decade now, but most recently Trump issued an executive order to force payment providers to keep customers despite religious or political beliefs (article by yahoo finance).
What if you woke up tomorrow…
Yes if you “woke” up too much you will be censured
