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A comment on Currency (Restrictions on the Use of Cash) Bill 2019. Parent comment

Re:Currency (Restrictions on the Use of Cash) Bill 2019 by icu on Monday July 29, 2019 @11:29AM (#20555574)
Cash is freedom and privacy. Cashless is tyranny and scrutiny.

This is why we say innocent until proven guilty in the West. There is a social contract that is is better to let a murderer go free than to let an innocent person rot in prison for a crime they didn't commit.

The same social contract exists in society for cash. Cash exists so that we have privacy and freedom at the cost of criminal activity.

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Re:Currency (Restrictions on the Use of Cash) Bill 2019 by torified on Tuesday July 30, 2019 @01:34AM (#20562341)
Cashless can also be anonymous, but that won't be presented as an option of course.

You are so right about the innocent until proven guilty.

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