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Re:New EU Proposals Seek to End Anonymous Bitcoin Trading by threeseed on Tuesday July 05, 2016 @03:01PM (#12038726)
But this is a contrived and frankly ridiculous premise.

Situations like this are why we have an independent judicial system. And even if we didn't who is thinking that credit cards are the only way to buy things ?

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Re:New EU Proposals Seek to End Anonymous Bitcoin Trading by unabridged on Tuesday July 05, 2016 @04:09PM (#12039168)
>But this is a contrived and frankly ridiculous premise.

Tell this to the legal porn producers (or legal marijuana sellers/producers) who get their accounts frozen and shut out of the banking system.

http://www.cosmopolitan.com/politics/news/a24813/porn-star-b...

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Re:New EU Proposals Seek to End Anonymous Bitcoin Trading by DKnoll3 on Tuesday July 05, 2016 @07:44PM (#12040298)
Yeah, tell that to the guy who wrote "ISIS beer fund" on his PayPal transfer to his mate that we have an "independent judicial system".

No - we have an outsourced judicial system, where Facebook and Google will spy on you more than the USGov, the bank will control your money more than the Government, and the insurance company will have you in an autonomous car faster than a mandate will. That's modern neoliberalism.

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