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I completely agree with what you say, but I hardly see it as better now. Big payment services (from traditional banks to PayPal) lock "high-risk" (meaning anyone who has ideas they don't like) customers out of their services completely independent of the justice system and state apparatus.

And it's not like the poor and elderly aren't already discriminated against in cash based societies of today and in modern history.

More of a reason to fight back ever harder, instead of just surrendering.

Capital and the Capital-owned State work in tandem to make things like this happen. They are one and the same.

I remember when the credit cards blocked wiki-leaks. People become beholden to the organisations that own the cards.

In Australia the gov doesn't give the first nations people assistance, they give them cards that denote how they can spend the money. It's nanny state in the highest.