Conviction of Tornado Cash programmer: Privacy is not a crime!
www.patrick-breyer.deOn 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")
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Wasn’t the arrest over a year ago? How much time is left on the sentence?
This is terrible, but 5 years is pretty tolerable. Assange is in locked up for being a journalist and faces life in tortuous conditions.
Also, write your MEP and vote pirate party.
Assange isn’t merely a journalist. He collobarated with russian security services and was on their payroll during his work on their “RT” initiative.
Horseapples. Why I suddenly see a lot of out of touch with reality statements lately?
Please stop with the C.I.A. talking points. Have some self awareness. All of this McCarthy red scare shit is embarrassing.