RE: If you use Dash, Monero, ZCash you are considered criminal
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The USA and the UK are the worst offenders in the West when it comes to the willingness of governments to weaken the privacy of their citizenry. The German-speaking world is much better.
It won't do any good for governments to mandate the delisting of privacy coins from exchanges. Decentralized exchanges will be left. If you want to be less traceable, you can swap your coins for a privacy coin on a DEX and then do a transfer and then swap back to a non-privacy coin.
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UK is scary, I thought the US was bad until I saw some of the shit the UK is doing.
The US has a lot resources to throw at electronic surveillance. What the UK lacks in resources it compensates with a nastier and more invasive attitude. To counterweigh all the imperialistic BS, the US has an ethos of individualism and freedom. The UK is culturally different.
Oy! You got a license for the telly?
The EU have launched an attack on encryption as well. More to come probably in next few days.
Germany is a funny country when it comes to privacy. Their secret service is just as good as the NSA and GCHQ. Germany was even among the first nations to oblige ISPs to track client logins.
But somehow there's that belief that privacy is part of the modern DNA of the nation and thus agencies will not use all that data they have access to, at least not without a valid warrant.
I always loved how Germany dealt with (online) privacy and the CCC (and also Heise and Golem) are pretty legendary in their fight for the protection of privacy. But come 2020 the belief also feels rather naive.
If I'm not mistaken, ISPs have to do that in the entire EU.
Actually Australia is even worse.
I wouldn't doubt this, from everything I read Australia comes off as one of the most oppressive countries in the west. I think this is due to geography and its citizens idolizing the US, in unhealthy ways, I once heard an Aussie causally refer to a black Australian as an African American, which is just weird.
Yes, its unfortunately true that Australia is leading the "democratic" world in repressing liberty and freedom. Australian citizens don't have the most basic rights to enter and leave their own country.
In Victoria they are under the longest, most repressive and most violently enforced lockdown in the world, with a number of COVID cases that is tiny (15 a day) by standards elsewhere.
They have passed legislation enforcing backdoors on encrypted communications.
They have repressed constitutionally protected freedom of movement between states and freedom of political discourse for months.
I've posted more about this here.