You can see a word-by-word translation of the Greek:

And having made a whip of cords all He drove out from the temple the both sheep and the oxen and of the money changers He poured out the coins and the tables He overthrew. And to those the doves selling He said Take these things from here

I've reinserted the articles which that interlinear translation omits. On a grammatical level it's fairly clear that "both the sheep and the oxen" is expanding the "all" whom he drives out with the whip; and on a higher analytic level the fact that he tells the dove sellers to take their merchandise implies that they weren't driven out with the whip: to interpret that as saying that he used the whip on some merchants but not others according to what they were selling is a harder interpretation to defend than that the whip was used to drive the animals.

And we'll need to start worrying about that in 400,000,000,000,000 years.

Not really. Every ruling power in Iran over the past century has made the exact same bad decisions in this respect. The previous monarchy, the more recent monarchy, socialists, capitalists, foreign interests, Islamic revolutionaries, they've all been drawing too much water from the aquifers too fast for terrible reasons.

belted the shit out of greedy money changers grifting in the temple lobby.

This is a popular interpretation of the text, but a close reading doesn't really support it. It seems rather that he used a whip to drive out the animals but didn't use violence against people.

Sliced? You buy up-market fish sticks. Hoi polloi have to make do with mechanically recovered meat bound with transglutaminase.

Apple Messages isn't social media at all. It competes only with SMS. Same with WhatsApp. I can maybe understand a judge concluding that buying WhatsApp didn't meaningfully stifle competition, because no platform for basic point-to-point communication is ever going to prevent competition by apps that come on your phone (e.g. Messages).

WhatsApp isn't just point-to-point: it has groups, which is how it was able to create its own network effect. And Apple Messages doesn't come on your phone if you have an Android.

What about people with licences from other states? Do they have to stop at a checkpoint on the border and sign their rights away?

Why do people give credit a performer of songs and not the author

Because the Internet is full of lyrics websites which attribute songs to a performer and don't give any information about the lyricist and composer, or even tell you that it was a cover.

Slashdot itself has had a bevy of articles over the years (such as
this) about the harms of social media to developing adolescents.

Is Slashdot part of the propaganda campaign to wipe out digital anonymity?

The data on harms is at least a big chunk of the motivation. Maybe the response to it is a moral panic or maybe the response is proportionate to the evidence. But I think it's going to win out in terms of policy.

If you don't like the proposed solution, I think you better start promoting a better way to implement this kind of intervention that still preserves the protections you care about.

Or people are going to go with the not-better way.

Note that not all of the businesses mentioned are about crypto. Wise is an international transfer service which AIUI works by matching people wanting to transfer in opposite directions and so minimising the actual currency exchange, which allows them to charge very low commissions. It's already registered as a bank in Europe. The application in the US is probably linked to its plan to move from the London Stock Exchange to the New York one, because the UK is less happy with founders having a different class of share which gives them disproportionately more voting power than their stake.