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Re:In our cashless society, we need to take digital jail ser... by throwaway22032 on Tuesday February 22, 2022 @08:22PM (#30436361)
There is a distinction between freezing someone's accounts and ability to open accounts for the long term vs. them beginning to starve within days because they don't have any way to pay for anything immediately.
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Re:In our cashless society, we need to take digital jail ser... by lhorie on Tuesday February 22, 2022 @08:42PM (#30436499)
> them beginning to starve within days because they don't have any way to pay for anything immediately

I mean, if that's the only scenario you care about, you can just carry more cash in your wallet.

But when you said "a system that allows governments to arbitrarily "turn off" thousands or millions of people at the push of a button", that sounded like you were worried about more than just not having enough money for groceries for the week.

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