GitHub deleted accounts of people who contributed to Tornado Cash repos
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Re: GitHub deleted accounts of people who contributed to Tornado Cash repos
#2For those wondering Tornado here appears to refer to Tornado Cash [1].
[1]: https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2022/8/8/us-announces-sanctio...
Re: GitHub deleted accounts of people who contributed to Tornado Cash repos
#3Related discussions:
>GitHub suspends Tornado Cash developer account
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32389706
>U.S. Treasury sanctions virtual currency mixer Tornado Cash
Re: GitHub deleted accounts of people who contributed to Tornado Cash repos
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Re: GitHub deleted accounts of people who contributed to Tornado Cash repos
#5This probably protects those users. Contributing to the project at this point opens one up to the international reach of U.S. law enforcement.
Re: GitHub deleted accounts of people who contributed to Tornado Cash repos
#6For those wondering Tornado here appears to refer to Tornado Cash [1]. [1]: https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2022/8/8/us-announces-sanctio...
Oof. The confusing title could do with some editing then (capitalize 'Tornado' for one).
Re: GitHub deleted accounts of people who contributed to Tornado Cash repos
#7People on Twitter are either wilfully dumb or simply ignorant.
GitHub had to do this. It was required of them by law. Tornado was sanctioned.
> These prohibitions include the making of any contribution or provision of funds, goods, or services by, to, or for the benefit of any blocked person and the receipt of any contribution or provision of funds, goods, or services from any such person.
This is, unambiguously, directed toward entities such as GitHub providing them service.
I'm not a fan of GH these days but they did the only thing they could do in this situation. You can be upset about it, but you can't be upset at GitHub about it.
Re: GitHub deleted accounts of people who contributed to Tornado Cash repos
#8This probably protects those users. Contributing to the project at this point opens one up to the international reach of U.S. law enforcement.
You are going to open a huge can of worms if you are going to start prosecuting people for software pull requests.
Are we going to prosecute people who manufacture phosphor bombs for the US military as well now?
Re: GitHub deleted accounts of people who contributed to Tornado Cash repos
#9People on Twitter are either wilfully dumb or simply ignorant. GitHub had to do this. It was required of them by law. Tornado was sanctioned . > These prohibitions include the making of any contribution or provision of funds, goods, or services by, to, or for the benefit of any blocked person and the receipt of any contribution or provision of funds, goods, or services from any such person. This is, unambiguously, di…
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Re: GitHub deleted accounts of people who contributed to Tornado Cash repos
#10For those wondering Tornado here appears to refer to Tornado Cash [1]. [1]: https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2022/8/8/us-announces-sanctio...
Oof. The confusing title could do with some editing then (capitalize 'Tornado' for one).
I thought they were contributing to the Python web framework called Tornado (quite popular especially before asyncio caught on, but still well-known nowadays).