30 sats \ 2 replies \ @RoundaboutStacker 16 Aug \ on: U.S. woman sentenced to 12 years in Russian prison over $51 donation to Ukraine privacy
Its a good thing this never happens in the US. Imagine, for example, if someone in the US was running a website and got a double life sentence for it?
This is evidence of mass surveillance, possibly his donation was made from his bank account, where the state evidently knows everything, if Bitcoin or Monero were used, they might not even realize that he was supporting the enemy, and on the other hand I think that in the USA it would be totally the same, and if they detect that a civilian makes a donation to ISIS, or the Taliban, I am sure that the FBI will go after that person anyway.
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