France Minister of Interior Accuses Darknet Markets of Assisting Terrorists
After bitcoin, it is the deepweb which is now in the iron sights of the governments. Close to the heels of Russia trying everything in its capacity to make bitcoin illegal in the country, the French Minister for Interior Affairs is not targeting the darknet. Freedom of choice and free speech have become rare commodities these days and even in those small pockets where one can find it is being targeted by the governments across the world. Be it the United States government passing laws that conveniently erases the right to privacy from the constitutional rights of the citizens or the....
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