Conviction of Tornado Cash programmer: Privacy is not a crime!
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On Tuesday a Dutch court sentenced the programmer Alexey Pertsev to five years in prison. The court found him guilty of money laundering because the "Tornado Cash" software he developed enables criminals to carry out completely anonymous and untraceable crypto transactions (so-called "crypto mixer")

By this logic DARPA should be put on trial for creating TOR

what about computers and the internet? those were created and used for bad too. also gps and weather satellites.

fun fact: the first digital computer was invented for the explicit purpose of calculating artillery firing tables for the army during the war. what it actually ended up getting used for on its first program, was studying global thermonuclear war.

Possibly linux
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That would be the story if a lifetime

please don’t jinx it :(

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Oh… We are in THAT timeline.

By this logic every locksmith should be put on trial for making locks, every manufacturer of vaults and safes, every lumber company for making wood used in fences, every costume designer for making halloween masks, every post office for renting PO boxes… etc.

Evil privacy maximalists !

Dont give them any ideas.

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Too late

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