When the Canadian Kimberly Prost learned Donald Trump’s administration had imposed sanctions on her, it came as a shock.
For years, she has sat as a judge at the international criminal court, weighing accusations of war crimes, genocide and crimes against humanity; now she is on the same list as terrorists and those involved in organised crime. “It really was a moment of a bit of disbelief,” she said.
That’s why we need an alternative to US credit cards yesterday. And also a spine transplant to politicians.
Not only US credit cards, we also need online payment alternatives. And the most annoying thing is the google play services requirements for every single app, just like this one as an example
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They isolate your app, right. That is good enough for me for an interim period.
In Europe there’s WERO which was started to replace Paypal. It’s still in its infancy though.
In our country, we use QR code payments. Currently, we have agreements to use this payment method with several countries in Asia. But it’s still infuriating because most online payment and banking apps require Google Play Services.
It’s weird, I don’t want to sanction an ICC judge. Let’s have a look why that is…
Hmmm, the only thing I can think of is that maybe it’s because I’m not an international criminal?
So, by that logic, anyone who sanctions an ICC judge must therefore be an international criminal.The EU commission can do the same. Some people agree since there are strong Russian connections. But canceling the ability to pay without a judical verdict is wrong. https://feddit.org/post/26079160
My fear is that this will come to anybody who is inconvenient to those in power.
Sometimes sanctions have to be swift, like sanctioning Russian oligarchs or manufacturers supporting the war. But there should be repercussions for sanctions imposed in bad faith or to intimidate.
There must also be a minimum of monthly allowed funds for food and shelter. Those sanctions will come for regular citizens and at worst they will be imposed by an AI for comments on the internet, for anything the EU doesn’t like.
ill be a judge and take these “punishments” where their Xitter and facebook accounts canceled to
Just cancel your accounts…???
woosh. I don’t have some of those.
