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You're guilty until proven innocent on nearly every regulated financial service platform. Prepare to explain with evidence how you got the money, why it's being sent, and who it's being sent to, at a moment's notice. Otherwise expect to be separated from your balance on said platform indefinitely.

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Exactly. Money is treated differently than every other medium. As soon as you use it, traditional democratic principles are ignored, and the population is largely okay with that.

The public support for this kind of double standard translates to: "we support you being secure in your rights, unless you want to do something meaningful, like send, receive or possess economic value".

As long as these broad invasions of AML laws into privacy are in place, the West's support for the principles of liberal democracy looks superficial.

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