speaking of the devil ...
its called keeping open options and keeping options open, i never see people 'being protected' from buying shares in twitter or if i think locally ... Fortis or , hold on, BELFIUS (two banks, the latter actually virtually blackmailed the governments in pumpin huge amounts of taxcash into it 'or else' lots of people would lose their savings (in short, very short) , so this englightened despotism smells like both old money losing control and old money trying to gain control
its far from dead
i get most of my copper on steemit from replies so don't feel guilty for not voting, but do for downvoting, this is critical info in the middle of a fudstorm
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