Quote (Santara @ Dec 11 2022 12:11am)
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Credit card companies, like domain name services and other utilities have realized that they wield the modern powers of the ancient gatekeepers, city watch and robber barons and may exploit their powers to enact social domestic and foreign policy. At its logical maxim, if you need water to live, the guy who can turn off the taps to your neighborhood turns out to have leverage to control your life. We're just moving one step closer to a future where if you choose to support policies the people with power oppose, you'll lose your bank account, your internet access, your power, your gas, your home, your freedom and your life. But the mistake is thinking that some creeping orwellian oppressive state is a tenable endgame, when history has shown once tyrants reach the tipping point of power they simply take off the mask and assume absolute control. Justin Trudeau didn't need to bother with pretense.
Got it. Yea one small step for banks one giant leap for communist dictatorship kind. If my bank ever tried to pull a stunt like that I would drop them faster then Usain bolt.
This post was edited by addone on Dec 10 2022 06:38am