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Banking is optional; the problem is that many businesses insist on bank cards to transact. It’s important that businesses be compelled to accept cash for all transactions. It’s particularly bad in some cities. Rather than enforcing access to the special hell that is US retail banking, just prohibit businesses from ripping out their existing cash infrastructure. Even with a bank account, your ability to transact is su…
Banking is not optional in today's advanced societies, and the sooner we recognize that, the sooner we'll have proper regulations mandating a minimum level of banking service, eg. Limited deposits, withdrawals, debit/secured cards.
You can be barred from flying (is that still true?) and now banking, without trial or evidence. It's already highly anti-democratic, but imagine what an aggressive, oppressive government will do with this power.
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Not everyone is using CloudFlare's DNS. These archive links work perfectly fine for me and I'm happy people post them.
Yeah. They seem to work for me, too. There was a few weeks where one of my devices got trapped in the loop gp described and it was very frustrating. I am not using Cloudflare DNS.
It's remarkable how totalitarianism seeps in.
Whatever happens to you is fine and dandy as long as it doesn't happen to them... and it probably won't happen to them.
You can be barred from flying (is that still true?) and now banking, without trial or evidence. It's already highly anti-democratic, but imagine what an aggressive, oppressive government will do with this power.
https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2015/05/the-gla...
Banks hide behind Bank Secrecy Act and other regulations in order to debank people. Chase closed my account, and the reason Chase gave: "Financial institutions have an obligation to know our customers and monitor transactions that flow through our customers' accounts. After careful consideration, we decided to close your account because of unexpected activity on these or another Chase account." I didn't dispute any t…
I'm usually a crypto sceptic but your story scares me, because it'll only get worse with time.