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dingleberry420 | 3 years ago

Not sure, thoughtcrime is a thing now in modern America?

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JumpCrisscross|3 years ago

> thoughtcrime is a thing now in modern America?

Nothing wrong with writing code. Code is speech, that's settled law. But the Tornado Cash team wasn't just publishing. They were building a tool. Semenov styled himself as a co-founder and the group advertised open positions on its website.

dingleberry420|3 years ago

Okay, how does that relate to open source contributors? Can you retroactively read their minds and determine their intent? Why does their intent even matter? What they were doing was not illegal at the time, and now they are being punished by the US.

8note|3 years ago

Is that settled law? Have the anti-circumvention parts of the DMCA been struck down?