Strypey (strypey@mastodon.nzoss.nz)'s status on Tuesday, 08-Aug-2023 23:58:19 JST

@feld
> The banks lost access to billions in transaction fees per year and they lost the metadata on each transaction.

... and TenCent and AliBaba got it all instead, and the CCP of course has an open backdoor into their systems, as a condition of letting them stay in business in China. So they have all that metadata too.

> the iron fist slapping down the banks who were getting too powerful and also manipulating their Big Tech into doing their bidding

Only the CCP can do that!

@davej @ixi