This once again proves a use case for unstoppable digital cash: the fact that if you don’t like it, you can not stop it.<p>In a world of free speech, and more Importantly, freedom of movement, this is the kind of money you need. What good is it to a person if he can escape a scary regime but can’t take his lives savings with him?
The article is a few days old. The site has since raised over 21 BTC (>$900k USD): <a href="https://tallyco.in/s/lzxccm/" rel="nofollow">https://tallyco.in/s/lzxccm/</a>
Why was my submission some days ago about this same subject flagged, but this one makes it to spot #39 ?<p>My submission was: <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30270288" rel="nofollow">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30270288</a>
This… isn’t a good thing.
The official stated goal of this protest was the overthrow of the democratically elected government of Canada. They put it in writing on their website. Their protesters have used their trucks to ram counter protesters. Their are literally hundreds of criminal investigations around this, including hate crime investigations. And that is considering that the police have adopted a soft touch.<p>The reason that the courts shut it down is that no one knows where the money is coming from, but it is very clear that a significant percentage of it is coming from outside the country.<p>A commercial vehicle isn’t speech. Money isn’t speech. If you want to wave a swastika flag around, go for it. If you want to use a 10 ton machine to disable infrastructure and threaten people, that’s not free speech.<p>Put another way: do we really want the ability for anyone anywhere to anonymously fund any political movement?