What to do when the internet is out?
Discussion
Actually, it was one of the most dramatic and darkest day in the history of #Kazakhstan: the regime not only killed bitcoin mining but gave the order to shoot peaceful protesters without warning. Over 10 000 peaceful protesters in more than 80 cities were arbitrarily arrested. We identified over 200 people were shot, including 5 y.o. children…
Together with our network of 10 k human rights volunteers we were documenting mass shootings and torture after president Tokayev employed Russian troops in Kazakhstan.
Some of our activists were arrested because of weaponization of banking data: regime precisely knew who was getting our support or donated us to in support of victims of political repression.
It takes 3-5 min for Kazakhstani special services to block your bank accounts if you fundraising or donating to opposition or human rights defenders to support victims of oppression.
We asked #FATF and U.S. State Departament, European Commission and legislators if they are aware about the scale of repression and financial exclusion as a consequence of abuse AML/CFT laws? No one actually was aware about it.
So we testified that those activists who used #bitcoin p2p transactions are safe till now. But this is a reason why Kazakhstan at the front to fight against p2p transactions right now. And this is a reason why we don’t want to allow democracies to label bitcoin with illicit activities in the regulations.
When regime kills freedoms, it means they kill real people. https://video.nostr.build/a03d320f7b84fa9db1e67438bc0c3814b3a0ed5503a89ca3402a918a17f0b993.mp4
Didn't know all that, thank you nostr:npub13ajk3hhvqys2ev4y68jwxywgs8fsdsuk4y5gkzs874jdyrccvf5qak2yd9
I understand, blocked internet means blocked information also. That is why we need to have independent internet too. 🫂
Quick reading about the '22 protests now 👀:
At around 7pm, the military opened fire.
"It sounded as if they were firing into the air but people behind us were dropping dead. Not those in the front row - they were not hit. So probably there were snipers who shot under the noise of gunfire,"
They shot to the peaceful people, not to the air… unfortunately.
https://en.odfoundation.eu/a/293144,the-aftermath-of-the-bloody-january-crackdown-on-prodemocratic-protests-in-kazakhstan/ https://video.nostr.build/f96f8bb9113f2fa1cbaac6bcbe152acedd1dca506ea3cc5cac041f184a5cc2a2.mp4
