The Free Software Foundation Europe was cancelled by their payment provider after refusing to hand over personal account data!
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I think that's sign of another attack on both civil society in Europe, and on movements to increase technological independence from the US, for which Free and Open Source Software (FOSS) is a critical factor.
It's an Italian financial service provider, though. Main shareholders also European.
This is insane.
Makes one wonder how common such stuff is and just goes unnoticed because affected clients just go along, other than the FSFE.
Banks have too much power.
Remember that one time half of the world economies almost collapsed because they took too much risk? You'd think we would have taken away their power after that.
Banks have lots of money. Politicians do like money. Connect the dots.
Honestly I can't wait until the Digital Euro becomes public. Banks will do heavy lobbying to restrict it but I hope in the end we can get a mostly unrestricted version. They should not be entitled to my money
Europe is trying to surrender their citizens to tech, make no mistake.
Looked into their work and liked it so i gave them a one-time payment. Crazy tho that for reoccurring donations they want at least 60€ yearly or 10€ monthly.