[habinero]

This ridiculous straw man comes up all the time. Stop it. Nobody said "governments are always good" or denied that dictatorships exist.

The rest of this is pure irrational FUD. Democracies are not dictatorships.

A president doesn't have the legal authority to freeze finances like that. They are not a king.

[RestlessMind]

> The rest of this is pure irrational FUD. Democracies are not dictatorships.

Please get your facts straight. This happened in Canada, one of the supposedly best democracies out there

"The Attorney General of Ontario sought and was granted an Ontario Superior Court of Justice court order under Section 490.8 of the Criminal Code of Canada against GiveSendGo,[69] to freeze the funds collected from two campaigns, "Freedom Convoy 2022"—US$8.4 million and "Adopt-a-Trucker"—over $686,000,[73][74] and prohibit their distribution.[72][69] The court order binds "any and all parties with possession or control over these donations".[73] The Mareva injunction was issued on February 17 by Justice Calum MacLeod.[75] GiveSendGo funds go directly to campaign recipients such as The Freedom Convoy campaign, so Canadian banks cannot interfere. The largest donation, which was anonymous, as were six of the other top ten, was US$215,000.[74] The Canadian House of Commons Standing Committee on Finance (FINA) members, who are investigating Freedom Convoy's fundraising, voted on February 10 to include a study of the "rise of ideologically motivated extremism".[74] The FINA Committee invited GiveSendGo to testify.[74]

By February 19, at least 76 bank accounts linked to the protests totalling CA$3.2 million were frozen under the Emergencies Act.[76] Most accounts had been unfrozen by February 23.[77]"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canada_convoy_protest

[habinero]

You're letting your conspiracy politics cloud your thinking. This entire screed is entirely irrational FUD. Stop.

Canadian banks and regulators looking into potential money laundering is entirely reasonable and appropriate behavior.

[helloworld11]

And you're letting your simplistic take on democratic government being "nice" color your own thinking.

Canadian banks and regulators looking into money laundering might be reasonable when carefully permitted by tried legal procedure. A bunch of freely donated money for a peaceful protest of a type with lots of basic precedent being suddenly frozen for blatantly political reasons by pressure from the country's leader is not the same thing. Quite the opposite, it's a small bit of third world tinpot, would-be authoritarianism that has no place in the legal proceedings of a highly developed country like Canada.

[habinero]

Take your conspiracy screeds elsewhere, please. This is a technology site, not Reddit.

[RestlessMind]

We are giving you facts which are pertinent to this thread. Please provide a factual rebuttal of your own rather than claiming "conspiracy", which this is not.

[RestlessMind]

Looking into? Totally fine. Blocking accounts? That crosses the line, which happened in Feb for 4 days. So yeah, if you don't have any reasonable arguments, don't just yell "conspiracy". I am giving you facts with evidence. Please respond with facts.