The Canadian government unbanked protestors they were unhappy with.
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/02/22/world/americas/canada-pro...
I think Americans are better off with annoying blocks on porn than the alternative.
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/02/22/world/americas/canada-pro...
I think Americans are better off with annoying blocks on porn than the alternative.
But in Canada, bureaucrat Foo talked to bureaucrat Baz, and presto--you're unbanked!
But that's not what happened in Canada. With no due process non-violent people were unbanked, simply for protesting against the government.
No. This pre-dates anything related to Julian Assange's criminal trial. https://www.forbes.com/sites/andygreenberg/2010/12/07/visa-m...
Simply speaking, Visa and Mastercard debanked Wikipedia because of their journalistic activities, simply because the US government did not like them, before there was any judicial process whatsoever.
Their right to political protest is protected and VC/MC isn't going to un-bank them without a court order. And since their right to protest is protected, that's unlikely to happen. Unlike Canada.
It was entirely warranted to freeze their accounts and make arrests.
In a free society people should be able to protest whatever in public without getting arrested and debanked. Otherwise you might as well be one of those authoritarian countries where protesting requires a permit.
BLM was a nothingburger in Canada. The most similar protests to that would have been the Wet'suwet'en solidarity protests. Those lasted a few weeks and were ultimately resolved peacefully, for the most part. An important thing to consider is that the protestors weren't interested in toppling the Government; they simply wanted the Government to hear them.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2020_Canadian_pipeline_and_rai...