Privacy is not a crime.

Freedom is not complicity.

Defending tools that expand individual freedom does not mean defending illegal acts. It means recognizing a basic principle: everyone deserves privacy — financial, personal, and moral.

Software like Samourai Wallet does not commit crimes. It is a tool. Just like cash, the internet, phones, or encryption. If someone uses these tools for illegal purposes, the responsibility lies only with the individual, not with the code or the people who wrote it.

Punishing software creators for how others use their tools sets a dangerous precedent. It shifts the blame of a sick society that cannot handle freedom onto those who dared to protect and expand it.

The majority should not — and must not — be punished for the actions of a few. Especially not the developers who simply created tools to help people exercise a right that has always belonged to them: the right to privacy.

Privacy does not protect crime.

It protects ordinary people from abuse, mass surveillance, and authoritarian control.

If we criminalize freedom today, tomorrow only permission will remain.

If they come for one of us, they will come for all of us.