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0 sats \ 3 replies \ @Scoresby OP 21 Aug \ on: Acting head of DOJ Criminal Division weighs in on noncustodial devs bitcoin
Here's Peter Van Valkenburgh on the speech:
We will not hold developers responsible for other people's bad usage of their tools.This is again encouraging but again I'm confused why this is the message AFTER the Storm prosecution went forward and reached a guilty verdict.
Van Valkenburgh's whole thread gives a good sense of the speech.
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Only saw this link now - should subscribe to your comments because I'm missing things!
"Merely writing code without ill intent is not a crime."Respectfully, there is no intent element to getting first amendment protection for the mere publication of speech. Nor should intent enter into the question of whether by publishing code one is “transmitting” or not.
This is what is a bit worrying. As a coder of deterministic stuffs, I feel "intent" is super fuzzy. It basically mixes opinion, bias, narrative, favoritism... into a threatening legal issue. So to me, this is as bad as Biden's Infra bill that made every developer, including Bitcoin Core developers, a potential target. With the current US administration, a dev better make sure to be disgustingly rich so that you can buy favors.
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