Mullvad. Signal. Proton. Tor. In the trial against Tornado Cash developer Roman Storm, the Government is stretching the interpretations of anti-money laundering laws to unprecedented scales. It's theory turns basic features of technology, such as websites, user interfaces and fees paid to conduct transactions on a blockchain into criminal acts, as @EFF wrote in their amicus brief. "Under such an expansive reading of both IEEPA’s text and criminal liability more broadly, software developers would be at the mercy of the government’s vast and potentially unbounded discretion," chilling First Amendment activity and discouraging the development of privacy software. This case will decide the future of the Internet.
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Roman Storm is charged with making a cryptocurrency network behave more like the dollars printed by the U.S. Treasury, an act for which he faces the possibility of more than 40 years in prison. Which is just one particularly malicious sign that if paper money were invented in 2025, America would outlaw it. The Government's stretch of AML laws now threaten the entirety of our digital privacy. Full story by @davidzmorris 👇
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