21 in 21: Rainey Reitman on Transaction Denied and Financial Censorship
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Rainey Reitman discusses financial censorship and her book 'Transaction Denied' on the podcast.
Rainey Reitman joins 21 in 21 for a conversation on financial censorship, free speech, and her new book, Transaction Denied: Big Finance’s Power to Punish Speech . Rainey co-founded Freedom of the Press Foundation and serves on the board as president. She also spent 11 years at the Electronic Frontier Foundation, first as Activism Director and later as Chief Program Officer. Drawing on years of work in civil liberties advocacy, Rainey explains how lawful speech can still lead to frozen accounts, denied payments, and exclusion from the financial system. She also shares how these issues connect to journalism, whistleblowers, privacy, and Bitcoin’s promise, and limits, as a censorship-resistant tool. Links to Book: Amazon: https://a.co/d/04WK0Qek Bookshop: https://bookshop.org/lists/transaction-denied-big-finance-s-power-to-punish-speech Audio: https://www.audible.com/pd/Transaction-Denied-Audiobook/B0FJZRQXXR?source_code=AUDORWS0718179KY7 A portion of every book sale goes to support Freedom of the Press Foundation. “In her timely and necessary book, Reitman illuminates the shocking and widespread censorship exerted by the American banking system, details how Orwellian financial…
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Host: Haley Berkoe
Guest: Rainey Reitman
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Organizations: Freedom of the Press Foundation, Electronic Frontier Foundation
Books & works: Transaction Denied: Big Finance’s Power to Punish Speech
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