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Filippo Valsorda
@FiloSottile
I was disappointed to see all the knee-jerk reactions to the Tornado sanctions, and I'm happy to see Matt and the EFF push back on the chilling effect on open source development. age is a privacy tool that's been used for ransomware, but its development is protected speech, too.
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Matthew Green
@matthew_d_green
There are a lot of thorny issues around the OFAC/Treasury sanctioning of an open source project, and what it means for freedom of speech. To help figure those out, the EFF has agreed to represent me. eff.org/deeplinks/2022
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Donald “chronos” King 🏳️‍🌈
@dlkingauthor
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@FiloSottile
The very idea of cryptocurrency — of code that actively redefines reality so that human laws cannot contain it — is inherently risky to the continued existence of human society, because it undermines the human-to-human trust that society requires as a prerequisite.
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Donald “chronos” King 🏳️‍🌈
@dlkingauthor
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@FiloSottile
Since when does the First Amendment come above the trust in the Constitution and laws that define it? If you create a "trustless" society -- the stated goal of cryptocurrency leaders -- then the First Amendment is just a piece of paper because it isn't a Solidity contract.
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Daniel Micay
@DanielMicay
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@FiloSottile
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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