I made this website that is based on my Master's thesis, and thanks to the advent of AI, I could make that into a website. It is also a showcase of my design skills (I really liked to create the webdesign.) The cases still require peer-review from reputable people, so if you're interested, let me know. Furthermore, I've still yet to actually make it more automatic/autonomous. Surely, all cases must be manually reviewed in the end, but there's some work to do still. Shouldn't be too hard, but for now, I am taking a break. Let me know what you'd improve; let me know how you (dis)like it. And sorry for those who don't like Bitcoin; I'm quite aware that HN is not the most friendliest toward Bitcoin. I understand the criticism though. Be well.
Yeah, that's the classic xkcd-reality. It will be a rather difficult to enforce that _en masse_. However, should that happen, then the money is the least of one's worries. In any case, financial censorship in that case would be the least of one's worries, if it comes down to such threats and physical violence.
That's also very interesting phenomenon. Instead of censoring after the bank accounts have been granted, one could also "censor" or rather exclude a person or group of people or an organisation by not granting a bank account in the first place. Quite shrewd, and extremely unnoticeable. I mean, whole nationalities are excluded based on quite absurd reasons. But I guess fear led to this in many ways.
I'm building a financial censorship monitor at https://nofunds.org/, that tells a story of how money has been turned into a political weapon to silence journalists, activists, and civil society by freezing assets, blocking accounts, sanctioning, and banning payments. It's part of my master's thesis https://www.doria.fi/handle/10024/187407 and also https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36430596, but now I wanted to make a more comprehensive list, using Claude API and manual work. I'm designing a website right now, and the site is live within 2 months (given the API rate limitations currently to process articles). I know Hacker News is quite critical of Bitcoin, but it's also worthy to warn that, indeed, Bitcoin is at least a marginal tool to those whose bank accounts may be endangered. I'm basically arguing that Bitcoin can be used to resist such financial censorship, deplatforming and so on.