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A Social Credit System Arrives in Canada | David Sacks
Last summer, I warned readers of Common Sense that financial deplatforming would be the next wave of online censorship. Big Tech companies like PayPal were already working with left-wing groups like the ADL and SPLC to define lists of individuals and groups who should be denied service. As more and more similarly minded tech companies followed suit (as happened with social media censorship), these deplorables would be deplatformed, debanked, and eventually denied access to the modern economy altogether, as punishment for their “unacceptable” views.
That prediction has become reality.
What I could not have anticipated is that it would occur first in our mild-mannered neighbor to the north, with the Canadian government itself directing the reprisals.
How do we stop this dystopian policy from taking root here in the United States? Some of my friends in the tech world say that decentralized blockchain and cryptocurrency offer an answer—and that might be true for pseudonymous computer programmers who can do gig work from anywhere in the world. But it won’t help truck drivers who operate in the real world under the supervision of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police.
The real answer lies in politics and the law. Policy makers need to build safeguards into our laws that protect citizens’ financial rights against some future emergency that would be used as the excuse to take them away. Just as University of Chicago professor Richard Epstein proposed that the largest social media companies should be treated as common carriers to prohibit them from restricting speech, we may need to prohibit the largest financial institutions from denying citizens access to the financial system because they dislike their politics. In order to prevent discrimination on the basis of creed, political beliefs may need to become a protected class.
We must also stop the definition creep around “terrorism,” a term whose use has become so elastic that it now even includes angry moms fighting school boards. Just this month, the Department of Homeland Security made a little-noticed change in its definition of domestic terrorism, citing “widespread online proliferation of false or misleading narratives regarding unsubstantiated widespread election fraud and COVID-19” as a key driver of what it deemed a heightened domestic terror threat environment. As we have seen for over 20 years, “terrorism” is the magic word by which any curtailment of rights and expansion of government power can be justified.
Read more🗞 David Sacks via Bari Weiss Substack
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• The WEF’s Great Reset Agenda
• Biden’s Thought Crimes Police
• Biden’s New Digital Currency Patrol
• Biden Ready to Emulate Trudeau Tyranny?
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Last summer, I warned readers of Common Sense that financial deplatforming would be the next wave of online censorship. Big Tech companies like PayPal were already working with left-wing groups like the ADL and SPLC to define lists of individuals and groups who should be denied service. As more and more similarly minded tech companies followed suit (as happened with social media censorship), these deplorables would be deplatformed, debanked, and eventually denied access to the modern economy altogether, as punishment for their “unacceptable” views.
That prediction has become reality.
What I could not have anticipated is that it would occur first in our mild-mannered neighbor to the north, with the Canadian government itself directing the reprisals.
How do we stop this dystopian policy from taking root here in the United States? Some of my friends in the tech world say that decentralized blockchain and cryptocurrency offer an answer—and that might be true for pseudonymous computer programmers who can do gig work from anywhere in the world. But it won’t help truck drivers who operate in the real world under the supervision of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police.
The real answer lies in politics and the law. Policy makers need to build safeguards into our laws that protect citizens’ financial rights against some future emergency that would be used as the excuse to take them away. Just as University of Chicago professor Richard Epstein proposed that the largest social media companies should be treated as common carriers to prohibit them from restricting speech, we may need to prohibit the largest financial institutions from denying citizens access to the financial system because they dislike their politics. In order to prevent discrimination on the basis of creed, political beliefs may need to become a protected class.
We must also stop the definition creep around “terrorism,” a term whose use has become so elastic that it now even includes angry moms fighting school boards. Just this month, the Department of Homeland Security made a little-noticed change in its definition of domestic terrorism, citing “widespread online proliferation of false or misleading narratives regarding unsubstantiated widespread election fraud and COVID-19” as a key driver of what it deemed a heightened domestic terror threat environment. As we have seen for over 20 years, “terrorism” is the magic word by which any curtailment of rights and expansion of government power can be justified.
Read more🗞 David Sacks via Bari Weiss Substack
Related🔎
• The WEF’s Great Reset Agenda
• Biden’s Thought Crimes Police
• Biden’s New Digital Currency Patrol
• Biden Ready to Emulate Trudeau Tyranny?
@LibertyOverwatchChannel
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Common Sense
A Social Credit System Arrives in Canada
Justin Trudeau just created a caste of economic untouchables. Can we stop this dystopian policy from taking hold in America?
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For anyone interested, here is the now-deleted WEF link mentioned in the WEF tweet on this post.
WEF = World Economic Forum
WEF = World Economic Forum
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Welcome to 2030. I own nothing, have no privacy, and life has never b…
archived 11 Dec 2016 07:21:39 UTC
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Putin Pulls a Fast One on Sleepy Joe
Meanwhile President Trump just called into Fox News and said of the Ukraine/Russia News: “This would not happen under my administration.”
Tweet 🐥 Suburban Black Man, Benny Johnson
Hat tip🤠 Kimchi fried rice
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Meanwhile President Trump just called into Fox News and said of the Ukraine/Russia News: “This would not happen under my administration.”
Tweet 🐥 Suburban Black Man, Benny Johnson
Hat tip🤠 Kimchi fried rice
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Media is too big
VIEW IN TELEGRAM
BREAKING: Twenty-Five Year CNN Operations Manager Joins Project Veritas as Executive Producer
“I thought that [FBI raid on Project Veritas] was the biggest abridgment to the first amendment in maybe the history of this country.”
“In the first five days of working at this company [Project Veritas], I had more conversations about ethical journalism than I did probably in the last 10 years of my career.”
Click to tweet this video: https://ctt.ac/38g4V
“I thought that [FBI raid on Project Veritas] was the biggest abridgment to the first amendment in maybe the history of this country.”
“In the first five days of working at this company [Project Veritas], I had more conversations about ethical journalism than I did probably in the last 10 years of my career.”
Click to tweet this video: https://ctt.ac/38g4V
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It doesn’t help when that ‘elected’ official is riddled with late-stage dementia & he & his whole family are literally bribed & controlled by America’s enemies. ⬇️ Just sayin’. ⬇️
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The global stage is infested w/ sharks who don’t care about feelings or about being liked. They have one singular focus, the acquisition of power and the only language they speak is power. Make sure the person you call your leader on the global stage speaks the same language.
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The global stage is infested w/ sharks who don’t care about feelings or about being liked. They have one singular focus, the acquisition of power and the only language they speak is power. Make sure the person you call your leader on the global stage speaks…
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The dramatic language is to be expected but fighting around chernobyl is extremely concerning. ⬇️
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JUST IN - Heavy fighting between Russian and Ukrainian forces reportedly at #Chornobyl exclusion zone 100km north of Kyiv. Ukrainian interior ministry warns of potential nuclear hazards.
Zelensky: "Russian occupation forces are trying to capture the Chernobyl plant... This is a declaration of war on the whole of Europe."
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Zelensky: "Russian occupation forces are trying to capture the Chernobyl plant... This is a declaration of war on the whole of Europe."
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Back Russia into a corner w/ NATO expansion & then use their defensive response as an excuse to remove them from the global financial system. Foolish. The end result will be an economically & militarily aligned Russia & China that have a system to circumvent sanctions & no real counter militarily around the world. The magnitude of this mistake cannot be overstated. ⬇️⬇️⬇️⬇️⬇️⬇️
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JUST IN - Putin claims he was forced into #Ukraine invasion, says #Russia remains part of the global economy and countries should not push them out of the system.
UK prime minister is pushing "very hard" for Russia to be ejected from global SWIFT payments system.
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UK prime minister is pushing "very hard" for Russia to be ejected from global SWIFT payments system.
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WATCH: Next to an intelligence building in Kiev, a group of Ukrainian soldiers burns documents.
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These people aren’t my countrymen. They aren’t fellow Americans; they are communist subversives & domestic enemies.
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