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by iepathos 223 days ago
The erosion of freedom is everyone's problem. Normalizing government control over personal bank accounts is a dangerous precedent. Today it's scam prevention, tomorrow it's freezing accounts of political opponents.
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> tomorrow it's freezing accounts of political opponents

Except that this already happened[0], and not in "authoritarian" Singapore but in "liberal" Canada.

[0] https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-60383385