12 sats \ 0 replies \ @cryptocoin 22 Nov 2022 \ on: Tornado Cash Developer Alexey Pertsev to Remain in Jail Until at Least Late Feb bitcoin
We've been here before.
Code is speech.
Speech is a fundamental right.
Financial privacy is a fundamental right.
The hearing saw the Dutch public prosecutor announce money laundering charges for the first time. The prosecutor had said little more about the case than a press release, but now accused Pertsev of facilitating the processing of dirty money by writing the Tornado Cash code.
Who do they go after next? Keet.io maybe, because they wrote a P2P tool that has E2E encryption and that will (presumably) be "facilitating" some illegal activity at some future point in time? Where does it end?
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