# Crypto community condemns Canada for freezing dissidents’ Bitcoin wallets

# Crypto community condemns Canada for freezing dissidents’ Bitcoin wallets

“# Crypto community condemns Canada for freezing dissidents’ Bitcoin wallets ” Global cryptocurrency enthusiasts have expressed concerns over Canadian authorities freezing bank accounts and crypto wallets involved in funding local COVID-19 protests. On Thursday, Ontario Superior Court Justice Calum MacLeod issued an order freezing all the digital assets and bank accounts associated with “Freedom Convoy,”…

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#No, really, we’re totally fighting for democracy

#No, really, we’re totally fighting for democracy

“#No, really, we’re totally fighting for democracy” We’re still very far from knowing for sure that Russia will invade Ukraine. Or at least that it will invade Ukraine again, more than it already has and on a scale larger than its regular, continuing cross-border harassment. Joe Biden’s “guess” is that there will be an invasion….

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#Beijing nails coffin shut on dissent in Hong Kong

#Beijing nails coffin shut on dissent in Hong Kong

“#Beijing nails coffin shut on dissent in Hong Kong” Authorities in Beijing last week forced the closure of Stand News, one of the last independent news outlets in Hong Kong, and levied new charges against Apple Daily, the city’s once-biggest pro-democracy newspaper. On Wednesday, hundreds of Hong Kong police descended onto Stand News’ offices and…

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#Two Hong Kong news editors charged with sedition

#Two Hong Kong news editors charged with sedition

“#Two Hong Kong news editors charged with sedition” Two top editors at shuttered Hong Kong pro-democracy website Stand News were charged with sedition and denied bail on Thursday, one day after police raided the outlet’s offices and forced it to close.  National security police charged former editors Chung Pui-kuen and Patrick Lam with conspiracy to…

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#Pro-democracy Hong Kong website silenced, staffers arrested

#Pro-democracy Hong Kong website silenced, staffers arrested

“#Pro-democracy Hong Kong website silenced, staffers arrested” A pro-democracy website in Hong Kong was shut down Wednesday after police raided its offices, froze its assets and arrested staff on “seditious publication” charges in the latest crackdown on dissent under China’s strict national security law.​ Stand News, which launched operations in 2014, said on its Facebook…

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#COVID regime is driving Americans to a healthy noncompliance

#COVID regime is driving Americans to a healthy noncompliance

“#COVID regime is driving Americans to a healthy noncompliance” If regular democracy isn’t doing so well, maybe it’s time to fall back on “Irish Democracy.” That’s what Yale political scientist James Scott calls the passive resistance of a society that doesn’t like what its rulers are doing to it. In his book “Two Cheers for ­Anarchy,”…

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