Welcome! This is a community for all those who are interested in protecting their privacy.
PS: Don't be a smartass and try to game the system, we'll know if you're breaking the rules when we see it!
Some of these are only vaguely related, but great communities.
This is a smaller deal than it would seem. Any SBP or Mir payment you can already assume to be similarly surveilled.
In general appearances in Russia follow the actual state of things with a huge lag.
Aren’t we doing a similar thing with Euro? :(
Everyone is. Yes.
And it's exactly as bad as when russia does it.
It's very very bad wheh russia does it.
At least Russians can use cryptocurrency for private digital transactions oh wait no it's illegal to buy things with crypto in Russia.
We need a cash only movement more than ever. It might be time to start leaving my cards at home from now on.
These scummy assholes at the big payment processors have already made rules where merchants break ToS if they surcharge for card transactions. It's time people SEE and have the option to OPT OUT of financial industry overreach.
Money is supposed to be a way to track value, who has contributed to society.
Honestly, i don't love it for that. It has so many fucking problems. It leads to so many fallacies and abuse.
But when an institution gets root access to a spreadsheet, instead of each person deciding, at least to some extent, where they send individual markers, that institution gets to decide, explicitly and without oversight, who society serves, what is valuable, and who gets to participate in society.
They also get to watch exactly how
And if they decide you're out, you're out. You are accountable to their values, which are subject to change.
There are perfectly legal and ethical (if not tasteful) kinks no porn site allows, because the christian shareholders go after payment processors of hosting and dns registration companies.
If the us government declares you a terrorist, your bank account is gone. You no longer have access-not after you're convicted; after you're accused.
Cash money. In use for more than four thousand years and still the best financial technology out there.
Naturally anonymized exchange tokens, not requiring global network connectivity, electric energy, approval of a payment processing system.
Seems such a good idea, almost impossible.
It's pretty controversial but imo financial privacy from your government is important and a legitimate thing to want, especially when your government is terrible. Hopefully Russians are able to find ways to evade this.
It's not F controversial. It's F obvious. Except people collectively ignore obvious things when it's about their herd instinct.