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Re:France and Germany Agree to Block Facebook's Libra by ricardobeat on Saturday September 14, 2019 @01:32PM (#20972366)
> monetary systems operating outside of the state could be argued to be one of the strongest weapons against tyranny

This is in direct contradiction to your previous paragraph, unless such a system is inherently decentralized, and not controlled by a single entity (such as FB).

Re:France and Germany Agree to Block Facebook's Libra by ralusek on Saturday September 14, 2019 @01:36PM (#20972403)
Facebook would already make the situation into 2 competing entities, as the state will always be the other.