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shoshana wodinsky (she/her) on Twitter:
“i can’t tell you how easy it is to mash together voter registration data, location data, and like, your credit card history in order to figure out who’s buying misoprostol, who’s walking into a clinic, and who’s voting pro-choice. and how *profitable* it is, too”
NOTHING WILL EVER STOP BITCOIN
The IMF paid $45 billion to prevent banks in Argentina from using Bitcoin
Key Takeaways
The Argentine Republic’s Central Bank (BCRA) has prohibited financial institutions from providing unregulated digital asset services.
The measure practically amounts to a blanket prohibition on crypto transactions within the formal economy because no crypto assets are regulated in the country.
Argentina reached a $45 billion debt restructuring agreement with the International Monetary Fund a month ago to help the country avoid defaulting on its loans.
To avoid money laundering, cyber attacks, and cross-border terrorism, the Central Bank has pledged to discourage the incorporation of digital assets in the financial system.
Intuit to pay $141M settlement over ‘free’ TurboTax ads
Canon can’t get enough toner chips, so it’s telling customers how to defeat its DRM
Facebook Deliberately Caused Havoc in Australia to Influence New Law, Whistleblowers Say
Last year when Facebook FB -6.77%▼ blocked news in Australia in response to potential legislation making platforms pay publishers for content, it also took down the pages of Australian hospitals, emergency services and charities. It publicly called the resulting chaos “inadvertent.”
Internally, the pre-emptive strike was hailed as a strategic masterstroke.
Facebook documents and testimony filed to U.S. and Australian authorities by whistleblowers allege that the social-media giant deliberately created an overly broad and sloppy process to take down pages—allowing swaths of the Australian government and health services to be caught in its web just as the country was launching Covid vaccinations.
The goal, according to the whistleblowers and documents, was to exert maximum negotiating leverage over the Australian Parliament, which was voting on the first law in the world that would require platforms such as Google and Facebook to pay news outlets for content.
THE IMF IS FIRED