Amazon, Apple and Google Cut Off Parler

Re:Amazon, Apple and Google Cut Off Parler by kristofferR on Sunday January 10, 2021 @01:57AM (#25711675)

I disagree with your last paragraph. Crypto is basically it's own banking system and while you can't build your own internet you'll always be able to run your own (often encrypted) protocol on top of it (IPSF etc) the existing one.

It's more about the web than the internet really. The web can be unfree quite easily. Unless we go full China and implement a Great Firewall other protocols can always exist on the net.

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Re:Amazon, Apple and Google Cut Off Parler by pcr0 on Sunday January 10, 2021 @02:17AM (#25711842)

Crypto is its own banking system but going from fiat to crypto falls within the current banking system, unless you're willing to buy crypto with bundles of cash and risk getting mugged.

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Re:Amazon, Apple and Google Cut Off Parler by Acrobatic_Road on Sunday January 10, 2021 @04:35AM (#25712826)

Not true. We can hijack the banking system using Bisq.

https://bisq.network/

Suppored payment methods:

    Advanced Cash
    AliPay
    Cash Deposit
    Chase QuickPay
    Face to face (in-person)
    Faster Payments
    HalCash
    Interac e-Transfer
    Japan Zengin Furikomi
    MoneyBeam (N26)
    MoneyGram
    National bank transfer
    Perfect Money
    Popmoney
    PromptPay
    Revolut
    SEPA
    SEPA Instant
    Swish
    Transfer with same bank
    Transfer with specific banks
    Uphold
    US Postal Money Order
    WeChat Pay
    Western Union
    Zelle

And no, I don't think they asked permission.

It's so funny. Whenever people say you can't do X with crypto, there is always something they don't know about that proves them wrong.

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Re:Amazon, Apple and Google Cut Off Parler by pcr0 on Monday January 11, 2021 @08:31AM (#25728608)

Thanks, I haven't heard of this.

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Re:Amazon, Apple and Google Cut Off Parler by joshstrange on Sunday January 10, 2021 @12:40PM (#25717126)

> unless you're willing to buy crypto with bundles of cash and risk getting mugged

I'm trying not to fall into a "Survivorship bias" here but I made 10s if not 100s of trades on LocalBitcoin years ago without issue. I wasn't meeting at people's houses or in some dark alley, I was in the Kroger (grocery store) parking lot or even inside Kroger or the Mall. I don't disagree with your point that fiat->crypto is not as easy as some people pretend it is but I just wanted to push back a little bit on the second part of your statement.

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Re:Amazon, Apple and Google Cut Off Parler by Consultant32452 on Sunday January 10, 2021 @02:02AM (#25711714)

Crypto exists only because the central banks allow them to.

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Re:Amazon, Apple and Google Cut Off Parler by kristofferR on Sunday January 10, 2021 @02:13AM (#25711801)

I don't see how so. If people were banned from buying crypto by banks it would just instead go through middlemen.

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