OP - more context in the title next time please. Some of us have no idea which "tornado" this refers to and or were unaware of a crypto project called "Tornado".
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#22People 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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#23Is there a decentralized git service off of ipfs or something?
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#24This is a good time time for EFF to step in.
This is open huge so many terrible ways for abuse.
1. Make some random crypto project.
2. Motivate people contribute to it, see DigitalOcean hacktoberfest.
3. Replace the code with Tornado.Cash source.
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“Money laundering” is a fake crime designed to make it easier to prosecute people who may or may not also have committed real crimes.
Sorry to disappoint but money laundering is very much a real, federal offense. (most other jurisdictions have equivalent laws)
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#26It's ironic, Tornado cash is something closer to the true spirit of "crypto" currency.
guess only rich insiders are allowed to launder money.
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#27Is there a decentralized git service off of ipfs or something?
There are other version control systems that can work in P2P mode, e.g Monotone.
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#28Any constitutional law experts care to comment? If the US government put pressure on Github to remove the code and delete their accounts, it seems like a clear violation of the developer's first amendment rights – "code is speech" being precedent.
How is code speech? To me it is the equivalent to nuts and bolts of a machine.
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#29Earlier quoted context omitted.
“Money laundering” is a fake crime designed to make it easier to prosecute people who may or may not also have committed real crimes.
Sorry to disappoint but money laundering is very much a real, federal offense. (most other jurisdictions have equivalent laws) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Money_Laundering_Control_Act
The point that went right over the head of you and the head of the other authoritarian that he is responding to is that there is no victim, not even a risk of a victim or any other bad "externality" (to use a word I know you people love) to money laundering just as a standalone act. The crime is defined in statute as a matter of convenience for the state because having privacy regarding where money comes from/goes makes it harder for them to prosecute other "real" crimes so they define that privacy as criminal in and of itself. But there is nothing inherently bad about the act of laundering in and of itself (unless you believe in guilt/badness by association) hence why he is referring to it as a "fake crime". Obscuring the sources of one's money is no more of a standalone crime than encrypting one's data is.
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#30People 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…
I have no sympathy for crypto whatever and I really don't care about who sanctioned whom and for what reason, but... Sanctioned project's contributors must be deleted from the server - where is that written in the list of things Microsoft has to do since you went out of your way calling everyone on the reply train ignorant?
> 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.
It's pretty cut and dry.