π¨ This is not a drill π¨
Everyone who cares about their right to privacy and personal freedom should write to their MPs now.
In the UK Labour are rushing through a Bill that could give the government the power not only to spy on your bank accounts, but to remove money directly from them.
This is an appalling overreach of state power. More fundamentally, it reverses the presumption of innocence that is the keystone of the justice system in any fair society. If the state believes I have committed a crime, it must prove that beyond reasonable doubt in front of a jury of my peers. Until it does that, I am innocent. Punishment before proof is the mark of the tyrant.
And why is this so important? Because transacting freely is fundamental to your ability to live a free and unencumbered life in an open society. Your decisions, your opinions, and your desires are all reflected in your transacting and spending choices. Fettering these is the simplest way for an authoritarian state to control you.
We defeated these attempts before. We must defeat them again.
Please share as widely as you can; use the template prepared by Big Brother Watch below to alert your MP NOW.
https://bigbrotherwatch.org.uk/campaigns/stop-bank-spying/#emailMP
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π¨ don't panic π¨
Everyone who cares about their right to privacy and personal freedom should write to their MPs now.
In the UK Labour are rushing through a Bill that could give the government the power not only to spy on your bank accounts, but to remove money directly from them.
Just buy #bitcoin no other action is needed.
That's true for those who already know about Bitcoin. But in the UK only about 12 percent of people hold it. We need to be vocal in pushing back against state overreach whether it will affect us immediately or not.
Wow really seems like they are trying to make fiat as unusable as possible!
Where are you getting this 12% figure fromπ€. I'd love it to be true but I genuinely think that's 10X too many. Maybe 1.2%π€·π»ββοΈ.
that's a good point - though fear is that this will hit the most vulnerable and least able to defend themselves
Another reason to use bitcoin and cash.
Those who don't directly hold Bitcoin in their own custody will be working on the plantations, not owning them.
The things governments do are irrelevant.
They already have and do this.
Stop begging your opressors for rights. Bank accounts? Use Bitcoin and defund the entire tyrannical aparathus.
In the US it's called the Bank Secrecy Act and it's existed since 1970
Just another reason to move to Bitcoin.
True - but the problem we have is that not enough have made the move, and many are vulnerable