Your address is monitored on a public ledger and they can control it. It's as easy as forcing an address blacklist and being labeled as a terrorist. When companies own everything and those companies are owned by few, it certainly can be used to control you. It's a bigger scheme than just one or two angles.
They can't just shut down bitcoin like that. No one person has control over it, it is decentralized.
Oh yeah? They shut down an election.
They can turn off the power to whomever they please and deprive you of it ;)
Your address is monitored on a public ledger and they can control it. It's as easy as forcing an address blacklist and being labeled as a terrorist. When companies own everything and those companies are owned by few, it certainly can be used to control you. It's a bigger scheme than just one or two angles.