About this episode
The episode discusses the risks of losing access to financial services and features an interview with Rainey Reitman on financial censorship.
What would you do if you suddenly lost your bank account – and potentially access to all your funds? What about your credit cards? How long could your business stay afloat if you could no longer receive payments? Most of us take financial services for granted, but they can be taken away at any time – for almost any reason. And sometimes the reason is just that they don’t like you – or someone in power doesn’t like you, who can put pressure on the financial company. In many cases, this amounts to financial censorship. My guest today, Rainey Reitman, is the head of the Freedom of the Press Foundation and author of a book on this very subject called Transaction Denied . We’ll learn about how this happens, what the impacts are, and what we can do about it. Interview Notes Freedom of the Press Foundation: https://freedom.press/ EFF: https://www.eff.org/ Protect the Stack: https://protectthestack.org/ Pretty much infra: https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2022/12/we-need-talk-about-infrastructure Santa Clara Principles: https://santaclaraprinciples.org/ Cryptocurrency 101: https://podcast.firewallsdontstopdragons.com/2022/06/06/cryptocurrency-101/ The…
People in this episode
Host: Carey Parker
Guest: Rainey Reitman
Topics covered
- financial censorship
- banking issues
- access to funds
- impact of financial services
- freedom of the press
Keywords
- financial censorship
- bank account loss
- credit card issues
- Rainey Reitman
- Freedom of the Press Foundation
Mentioned in this episode
Organizations: Freedom of the Press Foundation, EFF, Protect the Stack
Books & works: Transaction Denied, The Curse of Cash
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