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Premier ministre du Québec François Legault à interdire l'accès aux réseaux sociaux pour les moins de 16 ans ? Ce n'est ni nécessaire ni sérieux. On doit respecter les droits des parents ! C'est simplement un geste cynique visant à freiner l'élan du PQ Soutenir de mauvaises idées comme stratégie ? 👎

For those of you who follow Michael Bazzell's Extreme Privacy series of guides, he just released a new one where he recommends the Cloaked app for VOIP and number-forwarding services on phones. I agree, and it's been a great service specifically for masking phone numbers. It seems Bazzell has used the masked card service as well (I believe it's in beta). selfishly, here's my promo code. I believe there's a free trail for a few days

Security Check | Cloaked

This free security check unlocks a personalized recommendation for protecting your identity.

parfois, ils publient aussi mes idées en français. cette fois-ci, c'est à propos du plan « Génération sans tabac » à l'Île-du-Prince-Édouard le plan d'interdire le tabac graduellement en augmentant l'âge légal pour l'acheter ne fera qu'ajouter à la criminalité et mettre plus de gens en danger. Au lieu de ce plan terrible, le gouvernement devrait s'ouvrir à promouvoir des alternatives comme les sachets de nicotine et le vapotage

Un organisme s’oppose à l’interdiction générationnelle du tabac à l’Î.-P.-É. | Radio-Canada

I’m shocked, shocked to find that Sen. Elizabeth Warren has been the DC machine’s anti-Bitcoin puppet master all along. Fingers in the pies at SEC, the White House, and who knows where else

Some good wins for consumer choice, economic freedom, and financial liberties in today's slate of Supreme Court decisions The SC has always been the pro-liberty branch of the federal government, even though it's sometimes erred

I haven’t seen too much analysis about it, but the new federal law requiring all LLCs to give FinCEN names and identifying details of their owners (updated Corporate Transparency Act) is a bad day for financial privacy (don’t really care about millionaires and billionaires, since they use strawman manager arrangements).

ABA Banking Journal

What You May Not Know About the Beneficial Ownership Rule

By Chris Simpkins As the required implementation date of May 11, 2018, for the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network’s customer due

Ordinary middle-class Americans have used the privacy-preserving features of LLCs to protect their assets, investments, and property for years. If you wanted a modicum of privacy for your home or investments, whether from stalkers, tabloid press, or spiteful ex-partners, LLCs have always been ideal. These structures have been vital in the privacy community, and for good reason. Beneficial owners have always had to report income to the IRS, but this new reporting mechanism is an additional step that will open up that information for all to view, as well as introduce new opportunities for your rights to be denied or abridged by other government agencies and companies they regulate. Proponents (including the control whackos at FATF) say this is necessarily to deter crime and tax evasion. But court orders have always had the ability to unmask this information (especially with existing banking regulations). Not to mention the loathsome Bank Secrecy Act. The vast majority of Americans are law-abiding and follow tax laws. Further reducing the financial privacy of 350 million people to “chase” the 0.5%-1% is a perilous path. For many Americans abroad, the cruel reporting standards forced by the US government on banks abroad (#FATCA) already force many millions of US expats to use these LLCs in lieu of bank accounts where they live (namely because LLCs don’t require physical presence in the US). Getting a bank account as an American abroad is absurdly complicated (again because of US reporting standards imposed on foreign banks). What we’re seeing here is a slow-roll attack on financial privacy for ordinary people. Again, the billionaires can easily route around this. The ratcheting-up of KYCing every financial transaction or relationship (including bitcoin) is definitely part of a larger trend. And by any measure, it’s about reducing privacy for individuals, not broader concern for global crime. https://reuters.com/legal/legalindustry/changing-stakes-how-evolving-law-firm-ownership-rules-could-or-could-not-re-2021-08-19/

always relevant:

The Rage

Open Source Arrests: US Officials Sour on Biden’s War on Privacy

Biden is waging war on financial privacy, and not everyone is happy. The last several weeks have weighed heavily on those in Bitcoin who use pri...

👏 "And that's why you don't talk to the police. Because they're going to try to put words in your mouth" haven't followed this Scottie Scheffler. case at all, but I wholeheartedly endorse this

My latest article on the fundamental issues with the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. At best, CFPB is an agency without watchers. At its worst, it’s an unaccountable bureaucracy halting innovation and entrepreneurship

townhall.com

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau May Be Legal, but It’s Past Its Prime

The Supreme Court recently delivered a decision on the constitutionality of one of the federal gover

how do I scoop up one of those badass Mutiny t-shirts?

Une semaine à Montréal et je m’attendais à plus Tellement de puissance culturelle et technologique, mais contrainte par des politiques dysfonctionnelles Malgré ça, il y a le bilinguisme, dynamisme et une joie de vivre. Comment faire évoluer Montréal à une vraie « métropole » ?

Québec : the land of government liquor stores and government cannabis stores

Montréal is/est 🔥

My first post up on the newly launched ⁦‪EUTechLoop‬⁩ on the EU’s “Chat Control” 🔜Unmasking the plan to restrict encryption and private messaging in Europe

EU Tech Loop

Unmasking the plan to restrict encryption and private messaging in Europe

Can European law enforcement agencies force messaging services to crack open the contents of their users' communications to scan for and retain ill...

I'm not a bitcoin influencer, but I work in policy and follow most major and minor bills that relate to Bitcoin. I provide comment, commentary, and sometimes lobby for them. I understand that the entire "Bitcoin not crypto" plays well on social media, but when we're discussing the texts of bills or political rhetoric, it's not the biggest offense in the world. You're dealing with the law, which should be tech-neutral. Otherwise, there's no situation where Bitcoin is viewed more favorably than any other chain or coin.

Not that the People of Nostr care, but the FIT Act, the Congressional bill that aims to provide a framework for bitcoin and its crypto-offspring and has a good chance of passing, has a great line about self-custody and keeping FinCEN in check:

It's not often I'm quoted by Chinese propaganda newspapers, but in case I am, I'm glad it's on the need for free trade and the folly of tariffs.

Importers voice tariff concerns

tried to warn the lost souls on fbook

My first piece for @L0la L33tz's stellar new site "The Rage," detailing my recent conversations with high-level government officials at a "crypto" summit on various cases vital for Bitcoin privacy. The IRS. Treasury. And the OCC. “Maybe just 1-2% of all crypto on-chain activity is criminal,” said Jarod Koopman, Director of Cybercrime at IRS Criminal division. “Criminal use of cryptocurrencies are really more publicized than they should be, because we know most of the crime happens with traditional banking tools. The use of any crypto is only a small tool that has nothing to do with the underlying crime.”

The Rage

Open Source Arrests: US Officials Sour on Biden’s War on Privacy

Biden is waging war on financial privacy, and not everyone is happy. The last several weeks have weighed heavily on those in Bitcoin who use pri...