EU to ban all crypto assets, accounts, and custody services belong to Russians
watcher.guru
watcher.guru
Im most concerned with attitudes and precedent this will have on understanding western value system of ownership, due-process, total surveillance and total control of an individual. In my reading, these developments spell a sad future on these issues.
That such fundamental questions and core values upon which we lay the very justifications of such proposals are undone nobody seems to be bothered with (no opposition from any political party or public at large). That is what is puzzling me.
It's also quite concerning to me how, even amongst HN's supposedly enlightned readership, a lot of this discrimination against people just for the 'crime' of being Russian is either approved of or tacitly accepted with a hand-wavey "Well this is an inevitable consequence. Russia shouldn't have invaded Ukraine..." As if the average Russian has any more say in what their government decides to do, than the rest of us do.
Swap "black", "gay", "trans" or, in another era "Jewish" for "Russian" in all of these stories and see if you still feel OK with shrugging it off.
Just imagine if Quebec would start to bomb Vermont.