Earlier quoted context omitted.
They are not ignoring the law: “And most importantly, we can’t even if we wanted to.” Sounds like they are a non-custodial wallet or similar. While they may truly believe the law is amoral and are in part happy to make that statement, this is primarily a marketing stunt for the pro-privacy and unseizable aspects of self-custodied crypto wallets.
They should have opened with the facts. Then put the meme. Plus, that wasn't even the best "no" meme to choose.
Official Response: Request to Freeze Canadian Edge Users’ Accounts
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#42Re: Official Response: Request to Freeze Canadian Edge Users’ Accounts
#43Response itself? Good. But responding with a meme? An institution that presumably holds my money? Oof.
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#44When this protest started, people were complaining that the government was approaching the protest with relative tolerance compared to things like pipeline protests. Well, now protestors are being arrested and their accounts being frozen. They're no longer being treated nicely compared to environmental protestors. While I don't agree with their stance, I do think that "we should not have a vaccine mandate" is a valid…
This was never about vaccine mandates.
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#45Earlier quoted context omitted.
As far as I know, the law does not demand asset seizure, but freezing. And the frozen accounts will be unfrozen when the emergency order expires or is lifted. The goal is to prevent the use of assets right now to finance blockades, not to deprive people of their property forever.
People that argue this seem unaware of how dreadful freezing assets can be. 30 days without funds means you can't pay any debt, can't pay for food, can't use transportation, etc. I don't believe "The goal is to prevent use of assets right now to finance blockades," it's clearly an intimidation tactic against "undesirables."
If governments don't come down hard on using heavy vehicles for blockades, and don't do what they can to stop that being a financially supportable method of protest, it will be repeated everywhere, like the Gilets Jaunes model of protest.
But ultimately I think it would be better to make life miserable for them by degrees, rather than attacking their personal finances.
So the Spotify/Peterson idea was a sarcastic joke (which humourless people have downvoted), but why _not_ make it difficult for them to protest by making it hard for them to buy stuff, or by making it difficult for them to return to their cabs when they leave them? Why not make the protests less liveable?
The thing about non-vehicular protest is that it eventually fizzles out; people make their point, they endure some notable hardship, it makes the press, they make their point and they move on. Generally this is how protest brings about small changes. But it's inherent in the process that it's difficult, extreme and inappropriate to permanently disrupt.
There is a balance, and protests are designed to attract law enforcement; civil disobedience, arrest and being very publicly removed by the police is ultimately part of the modern mechanism of protest.
Road-blocking with a truck in which it is presumably quite routine to be able to exist in a little more comfort for a few days at a time is another matter, and if the response does not reflect that, it'll go on forever.
It's a clever idea, but just because it has clever and innovative advantages over e.g. chaining yourself to a fence doesn't mean that it should be granted a pass.
Either the protesters and the police come to some point of collusion about what their very public arrest and removal will look like, or something ultimately has to be done to stop them disrupting forever.
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#46Re: Official Response: Request to Freeze Canadian Edge Users’ Accounts
#47What a childish response and a great way to invite future regulation. I’m not an Edge customer but if I was I wouldn’t be anymore. Why would I entrust my money with a company that ignores the law and responds in memes?
why should private citizens have to lick the boots of government officials when they make stupid demands? They deserve mockery and being able to mock authority without fear of reprisal is the foundation of democracy
>I’m not an Edge customer but if I was I wouldn’t be anymore
you aren't their target market
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#49Not sure what Edge is but clearly it’s a deeply unserious organization that uses memes to respond to serious (and absolutely worthy of debate) requests.
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#50Earlier quoted context omitted.
They should have opened with the facts. Then put the meme. Plus, that wasn't even the best "no" meme to choose.
I’ve never heard of them and everyone in this thread now has. I think they succeeded with the marketing stunt. If they led with the facts it wouldn’t have been as viral as it leverages people’s extreme interest in this political issue.