Ukraine bill allows seizing assets and bank accounts freezes for draft dodgers

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9 points·ren_engineer··5 comments

made possible through their national digital ID connected to government services, relevant because the US wants to roll this out to other countries - https://www.usaid.gov/diiaindc

while you can make the case this is a valuable tool during a war, the same tech could be used to effectively destroy any dissent to the government under normal circumstances

ukraine does thing that makes sense... ok? why is this on HN

posted a comment with context a little bit ago, seems pretty relevant to HN with regards to discussions on data privacy, tech, crypto, etc.

your post was after mine so you can see my confusion

plenty of tech can be used to destroy dissent to governments, you don't really elaborate on anything. from a governments perspective there are nothing but pro's sure, but what do you expect? "hey we want this tool to make our jobs easier, but we should take into consideration to people who want to cause dissent"? what are you're expectations? not have the govt adopt any tools to improve anything because it could possible be a tool to control?

It doesn't make sense even from your cynical position. The asset freeze part is basically Ukrainian government asking half of the population to do a bank run.

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