To want financial privacy is to be labelled a criminal. If you build tools that provide it, you're facilitating crime. The legal system implicitly forbids financial privacy for the individual citizen and the Samourai Case is a clear cut example of this. Keonne Rodriguez, co-developer of Samourai Wallet, pled guilty to conspiracy to operate an unlicensed money transmitting business, not for committing crimes himself, but for building software! The government has chosen to criminalize privacy technology not because it enables crime, but because it enables independence. Rodriguez's sentence wasn't about law enforcement. It was about sending a message: financial privacy itself is a permissioned privilege. The state wants everyone to know; thou shalt not have financial privacy. That's the only logical conclusion you come to after listening to this chat that nostr:npub1dg6es53r3hys9tk3n7aldgz4lx4ly8qu4zg468zwyl6smuhjjrvsnhsguz had with Rodriguez.
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Agree
Thatβs the conclusion for me too.
Absolutely π― Itβs time to double down on privacy tools
To want privacy labels you a criminal. What do you have to hide that you need privacy.
Apparently "none of your business" is not an appreciated response.
Insane world
Those who wish to be left alone are always a threat to the "Soviet" and Communist Collectives.
One of the best ways to spot a "Soviet" or "Communist" is their language.
"What do you have to hide?"
"Why do you need a gun?"
"What are you afraid of...?"
"Why do you need a knife?"
"Why do you need so much money?"
"You must share with the unfortunate. "
"You are privileged..."
"Why do you need so big a home?"
"Why do you say that?"
That "Why do you need....." is one big key to the Soviet Communist mindset.
Some more are...
"How dare you...."
"For the greater good"
"Collectively..."
"Community..."
Some of the organizations promoting such Communist stupidity.
Home Owners Associations
Health Management Organizations
Gated Communities
Demonrats
Socialists
Communists
Democrats
Antifa
SEIU
Tides Foundation
World Economic Forum
Black Lives Matter
Black Panther Party
Nation of Islam
All if the queer groups
Unsterblichen
Nationalsozialismus
Etc....
Cypherpunks that code and change society without permission, should continue and do so anonymously/pseudonymous.
"The government has chosen to criminalize privacy technology not because it enables crime, but because it enables independence."