At what point does it make sense to undermine the very legal framework that guarantees your freedom of speech?
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The First Amendment isn't a natural law or part of the cosmic order, it's a thingy written down by people 250 years ago that people could change if they liked.
Absolutist freedom of speech isn't a coherent ideology, because it condones its own destruction.
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It's hardly absolutist free speech to believe that publishing code to provide people with financial privacy is not violating any laws. Privacy itself is a right covered by multiple parts of the US constitution. Publicly publishing all your transactions is not a legal requirement.
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Doesn't make much sense to claim that when the topic is a port of the traditional Zcash technology to an Ethereum smart contract...
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The blockchain has a *PUBLIC* record of every transaction committed, of every Solidity contract executed.
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Y'all shouldn't be acting surprised that making everyone look like criminals by using a money laundering machine is making everyone look like criminals.
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Financial privacy is not money laundering. It's only money laundering if you're hiding the proceeds of a crime. That's how the term is defined and the laws are defined. People using it for other reasons were not violating any US laws.
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Financial privacy is *automatic* if you use the legitimate, legally sanctioned banking system.
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There will ALWAYS be a trusted party in currency. ALWAYS. It might as well be the institution which is held to account through the will of the voting public.
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News to me that we all live under governments which are held to the will of the voting public. The majority of the public deciding that sex workers, trans people, recreational drugs, etc. should be criminalized also doesn't make it right. Plenty of laws are clearly immoral.
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