authority to cut off the protesters’ financial resources. The government “obligated” processors of financial transactions, including crowdfunding sites, to report any funding, including donations that “they deemed suspicious,” to the government authorities.71 The Wall Street Journal reported that “financial institutions froze more than 200 financial accounts belonging to individuals and an account held by a payment processor with a value of 3.8 million Canadian dollars, or the equivalent of $3 million. Police also ceased transactions involving 253 cryptocurrency addresses.”72 Despite outrage
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