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EU moving towards total monetary surveillance and banning all anonymous payments (lemmy.ml)

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[–] agent_flounder@lemmy.world 31 points 8 months ago

This doesn't seem that much worse than American rules that have already been in place for a long, long time.

Do you really want to be like the US, though? I think maybe that's not a great idea. (Source: am from US)