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by ineedasername 1988 days ago
Going from bans due to ToS violations all of the way to government coercion of executives through imprisonment is an enormous leap in logic. There's quite a few steps along that path in between.

And if course given that bitcoin has to be sent and received, if we ever arrived at your dystopia, bitcoin would not help: the political rival would simply jail the executive for receiving bitcoin payments instead of USD currency. Bitcoin isn't preventing your dystopia.

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government coercion of executives through imprisonment

I think you read this slightly wrong -- drop the government (political adversary != government adversary) and relax imprisonment for threats of violence:

"coercion of executives through threats of violence"

...and we've got something a lot closer to what we already see today.