To be clear I am talking about banks like TD and RBC, not gofundme or whatever. I am fairly certain that the government recommended the action and provided info in the form of lists of names, but they didn't have legal standing to force the freeze, they could only ask for it. This was my understanding. It was the government trying to absolve itself of responsibility and throw the banks under the bus. Basically downloading responsibility.
That’s like giving someone a gun, giving them a target, a time, and a place, and then afterwards claiming you’re not complicit in the murder.
Or the feds in the US approaching social media companies to censor users, and then claiming it wasn’t a violation of the first amendment because the actions were taken by a private company.
TD would not have dreamed to take those actions on their own. It was 100% an act of government. No amount of semantics will refute that.
To be clear I am talking about banks like TD and RBC, not gofundme or whatever. I am fairly certain that the government recommended the action and provided info in the form of lists of names, but they didn't have legal standing to force the freeze, they could only ask for it. This was my understanding. It was the government trying to absolve itself of responsibility and throw the banks under the bus. Basically downloading responsibility.
That’s like giving someone a gun, giving them a target, a time, and a place, and then afterwards claiming you’re not complicit in the murder.
Or the feds in the US approaching social media companies to censor users, and then claiming it wasn’t a violation of the first amendment because the actions were taken by a private company.
TD would not have dreamed to take those actions on their own. It was 100% an act of government. No amount of semantics will refute that.