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Canadian citizens have already had their bank accounts blocked for daring to protest against their government. [1] A German citizen had her bank accounts blocked for reporting from Donbas, presumably against what the German government regarded as being the truth. The same thing happened to her father (?!). [2]

So some of the things the OP is worrying about are already happening, no “conspiracy” about it.

[1] https://www.nationalreview.com/news/canada-unlocks-vast-majo...

[2] https://yournews.com/2022/06/15/2360919/german-govt-labels-j...

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By "protest" you mean terrorize a neighborhood of residents by subjecting them to continuous noise, fire, pollution, blockades, and physical harassment, right? What happened in Ottawa in Feb 2022 was way beyond the bounds of a reasonable protest.

Canadian citizens have already had their bank accounts blocked

This only happened because of Canada's CBDC. Oh, wait ...

You make a sarcastic response here but the point the parent is making is that we have these grievous injustices happening within the confines of the current system. If we move to the CBDC era without legislation to protect the privacy and human rights of citizens, our governments will have far greater capabilities to erode those rights.

So allowing banks to transfer funds between each other and the Federal Reserve in real time will erode your rights?

Don't look now but they do all this already using ACH --- just more slowly and inefficiently.

Buckle up chicken little, your sky is going to fall because the economic case for it is overwhelming.

More like the political case for it.

Do Canadians or Germans have constitutionally dictated freedom of speech like Americans do?

Both Canadians and Germans are supposed to be living in a "rules-based world" which is now, supposedly, under attack. I had suspected that that "rules-based world" included the liberty/freedom of protesting against your government's policies, this is not a "freedom of speech" issue in the American sense.

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