Western governments claim that they promote freedom in the world. They call themselves "democratic" and "liberal".
Thus: Western governments should re-think their stance about cryptocurrency privacy. If they want to fight authoritarian dictatorships, they should not treat their citizens like them. Instead, they should respect their freedom to transact privately.
They don't promote any freedom and they preach what they don't practice. After calling themselves democratic and
liberal people why then do they oppress the people that have elected them to represent them as their leader? They sweet talk the public, make false promises, and when finally chosen as the leader, they don't listen to most opinion of the people.
They can not love Bitcoin privacy because they want the people to remain under their control, they want to make people dance to their tones, they want to show that they are the leaders and can do what they seem fit.
These same people have been fighting cases of money laundering for decades and yet have not even been able to stop such incident and are now fighting Bitcoin privacy because they think Bitcoin will contribute to money laundering and yet they are not able to stop money laundering in fiat. That doesn't make any sense.
They want to see what everyone is doing, if it was even possible for them, they will have put a surveillance cameras in the homes of every citizens, to keep watch of everyone 24/7.
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How a $200 check can put you on a government watch list" is what they want, with fiat it can be very easy
for them and that's why they are fighting Bitcoin privacy, forgetting that Bitcoin is not going to be their biggest issue. They can still give their people the deserved freedom and fight who ever they are seeing committing crimes but they don't have to deprive people that freedom because of other bad people.