{"id":1237,"date":"2023-09-22T13:06:07","date_gmt":"2023-09-22T13:06:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2023\/09\/22\/the-end-of-liberty-is-nigh-the-digital-pound-and-cancel-culture\/"},"modified":"2023-09-22T13:06:07","modified_gmt":"2023-09-22T13:06:07","slug":"the-end-of-liberty-is-nigh-the-digital-pound-and-cancel-culture","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2023\/09\/22\/the-end-of-liberty-is-nigh-the-digital-pound-and-cancel-culture\/","title":{"rendered":"The End of Liberty is Nigh: The Digital Pound and Cancel Culture"},"content":{"rendered":"

And to add insult to injury, irony to outrage, the end of liberty is being ushered in by the mother country.  Here<\/a>:<\/span><\/p>\n

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The digital pound would be a new type of money issued by the Bank of England for everyone to use for day-to-day spending. You would be able to use it in-store or online to make payments. <\/span><\/p>\n

This type of money is known as a central bank digital currency (CBDC). You may also hear it being called \u2018digital sterling\u2019 or even \u2018Britcoin\u2019. We call the UK version of CBDC the digital pound<\/strong>.<\/span><\/p>\n

The digital pound would be denominated in sterling and its value would be stable, just like banknotes. \u00a310 in digital pounds would always have the same value as a \u00a310 banknote.<\/span><\/p>\n

If we introduced it, it would not replace cash. We know being able to use cash is important for many people. That\u2019s why we will continue to issue it for as long as people want to keep using it.<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

And you can take that italicized paragraph to the bank! (Italics added.)<\/span><\/p>\n

In a parallel assault on liberty, the Brits are going cancel-crazy. Dreher<\/a>:<\/span><\/p>\n

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It\u2019s a country that gave the world George Orwell, but now, it\u2019s a \u2018Brand\u2019 new world for free speech in once-great Britain, which these days specializes in doling out the unwelcome gift of Orwellianism.<\/span><\/p>\n

Dame Caroline Dinenage, the chair of a British Parliamentary committee, has been writing to social media platforms Facebook, TikTok and Rumble, asking them if they plan to follow YouTube\u2019s lead and demonetize<\/a> the accused sex pest Russell Brand. On committee letterhead, Dame Caroline wrote to express the committee\u2019s concern that Brand will not be able to make money on the platform and thereby \u201cundermine the welfare of victims of inappropriate and potentially illegal behavior.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Potentially illegal. <\/em>This Conservative MP is using her powerful position to attempt to crush Brand\u2019s ability to make a living, even though he denies the allegations, and they have not been subject to any sort of trial. This member of the British government is attempting to demonetize Russell Brand himself, based solely on allegations.<\/span><\/p>\n

If this outrageous intimidation is allowed to stand, no one is safe in Britain. All it takes is for the right people to level fashionable accusations against you\u2014ones having to do with racism, sexism, LGBT-phobia, \u2018toxic masculinity,\u2019 and whatnot\u2014and you could see your livelihood evaporate overnight. You could even see your own government persecute you, as the committee headed by Dame Caroline, Baroness Lancaster of Kimbolton, is doing to Brand.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

The Anglosphere is lost, and America is no exception. The push-back is too little, too late. But it ain't over 'til it's over.<\/span><\/p>\n

We fight on in the gathering gloom. No defeatism! On the other hand, don't be a fool who sacrifices his life on the altar of activism. We have but one night to spend in this bad inn.  But a night is not nothing. I'll leave it to you to figure out the right mix of commitment to the fight and Gelassenheit<\/em>. And it is up to you to balance praeparatio vitae<\/em> and praeparatio mortis<\/em>.<\/span><\/p>\n

"So let us not talk falsely now<\/a>, the hour is getting late."<\/span><\/p>\n

"War, children, it's just a shot away<\/a>."<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

And to add insult to injury, irony to outrage, the end of liberty is being ushered in by the mother country.  Here: The digital pound would be a new type of money issued by the Bank of England for everyone to use for day-to-day spending. You would be able to use it in-store or online … Continue reading “The End of Liberty is Nigh: The Digital Pound and Cancel Culture”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[163,216,312,29,452,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1237","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-leftism-and-political-correctness","category-money-matters","category-political-pessimism","category-political-ponerology","category-poverty-and-wealth","category-wokery"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1237","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1237"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1237\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1237"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1237"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1237"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}