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Title: Operation Chokepoint: Soft Fascism; Another example Bitcoin needs to remain P2P Post by: inBitweTrust on May 19, 2014, 10:02:31 PM http://reason.com/blog/2014/04/28/doj-operation-chokepoint-and-porn-stars
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LQAhWtwnuvY "the DOJ and its allies are going after legal but subjectively undesirable business ventures by pressuring banks to terminate their bank accounts or refuse their business. The very premise is clearly chilling—the DOJ is coercing private businesses in an attempt to centrally engineer the American marketplace based on it's own politically biased moral judgements. Targeted business categories so far have included payday lenders, ammunition sales, dating services, purveyors of drug paraphernalia, and online gambling sites." These Legal businesses are being shutout of the global marketplace and forced to find alternative means of accepting payments due to capricious and arbitrary "moral" judgements. They aren't even doing so with the will of the people through a referendum or legislation but rooting out the small behaviors while leaving larger corporations untouched in the same business. Run a large casino or state lottery.... you are fine; small online casino....Shutdown that competition! Large bank giving out loans.... fine; small payday loans startup wanting to offer better deals than established payday sharks .... nope! Large porn Company...fine; Porn actress with personal website...Account shutdown! ect..... This is why Bitcoin must remain free and regulated only by the code and mathematics. Title: Re: Operation Chokepoint: Soft Fascism; Another example Bitcoin needs to remain P2P Post by: a7594li on May 20, 2014, 01:55:07 AM Just want to focus on,sound good
Title: Re: Operation Chokepoint: Soft Fascism; Another example Bitcoin needs to remain P2P Post by: asdf on May 20, 2014, 01:59:26 AM That's the whole point of government. It's not an accident.
Bitcoin will be their undoing. Title: Re: Operation Chokepoint: Soft Fascism; Another example Bitcoin needs to remain P2P Post by: Ron~Popeil on May 20, 2014, 03:09:06 AM This is all very disturbing. The abuse of power grows every day. They choose gambling and porn stars to attack because they are not sympathetic figures to most people. Wait until they start trying to freeze and close accounts of people that criticize or disagree with them.
Title: Re: Operation Chokepoint: Soft Fascism; Another example Bitcoin needs to remain P2P Post by: inBitweTrust on May 20, 2014, 03:45:49 AM Wait until they start trying to freeze and close accounts of people that criticize or disagree with them. They are already doing this I suppose if you consider the targeting IRS audits on the Tea Party, or the account freezes if you choose to do business with a country they disagree with politically. Title: Re: Operation Chokepoint: Soft Fascism; Another example Bitcoin needs to remain P2P Post by: inBitweTrust on December 25, 2014, 10:42:36 AM https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cWaFCHrb21c
John Stossel - Operation Choke Point http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Choke_Point There were many businesses that have a legitimate role in society harmed with this project: Ammunition Sales Coin Dealers Dating Services Drug Paraphernalia Escort Services Firearms Sales Fireworks Sales Pornography Surveillance Equipment Travel Clubs Title: Re: Operation Chokepoint: Soft Fascism; Another example Bitcoin needs to remain P2P Post by: Elwar on January 08, 2015, 03:59:26 PM https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cWaFCHrb21c John Stossel - Operation Choke Point Good segment, I thought the same thing when I watched it. Title: Re: Operation Chokepoint: Soft Fascism; Another example Bitcoin needs to remain P2P Post by: BitUsher on August 21, 2015, 02:24:47 PM Operation Chokepoint still occurring...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fcNV4PTjED8 Legal Businesses being shutdown in a capricious fashion. Title: Re: Operation Chokepoint: Soft Fascism; Another example Bitcoin needs to remain P2P Post by: BitUsher on December 23, 2015, 05:02:07 AM https://twitter.com/RealKidPoker/status/679509811671609344
Operation Chokepoint will close down all your accounts if you make too much money from Poker... Time to adopt bitcoin,. |