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makattak

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Facebook is developing its own currency
« on: June 26, 2019, 01:38:17 PM »
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2019/06/dont-trust-libra-facebooks-new-cryptocurrency/592450/

No, the Libra isn't scary at all.

And the already proven desire of the left to shut down all ability of their enemies to conduct any sort of business ought not to be a concern either.

All this TOTAL control of every aspect of a person's life seems to remind me of something, vaguely...

"It also forced all people, great and small, rich and poor, free and slave, to receive a mark on their right hands or on their foreheads, so that they could not buy or sell unless they had the mark, which is the name of the beast or the number of its name."
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Re: Facebook is developing its own currency
« Reply #1 on: June 26, 2019, 02:28:58 PM »
Next you'll be yammering about my Gmail ID that lets me use some 17 different devices through the mandatory linked account that tracks my location and every action! Its for my convenience really...
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Re: Facebook is developing its own currency
« Reply #2 on: June 27, 2019, 08:37:57 AM »
Quote from: Ned Hamford on June 26, 2019, 02:28:58 PM
Next you'll be yammering about my Gmail ID that lets me use some 17 different devices through the mandatory linked account that tracks my location and every action! Its for my convenience really...
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Re: Facebook is developing its own currency
« Reply #3 on: June 27, 2019, 08:50:58 AM »
Great. I’m not on Facebook because I don’t have any friends. Now I won’t have any money either.
Antisocial media is the next big thing.
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Re: Facebook is developing its own currency
« Reply #4 on: June 27, 2019, 09:08:24 AM »
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Re: Facebook is developing its own currency
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