Re:Largest Bitcoin mixer, Bitmixer.io, closes down
by matt4077 on Monday July 24, 2017 @08:45PM
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To just repeat what others have said: nobody is advocating outlawing those tools.
To add something: When you're running such a service and care about the right to privacy, you should try to minimise its use for illegal purposes whenever possible.
It's quite counterproductive to glorify that criminal activity as some sort of heroic effort in defence of privacy rights, and gloating about it with a sort of haha-cant-stop-the-terrorist-inyourface. Because, yes, if your privacy tool becomes useful enough for that clientele to cause significant harm, people will start supporting its ban.
To add something: When you're running such a service and care about the right to privacy, you should try to minimise its use for illegal purposes whenever possible.
It's quite counterproductive to glorify that criminal activity as some sort of heroic effort in defence of privacy rights, and gloating about it with a sort of haha-cant-stop-the-terrorist-inyourface. Because, yes, if your privacy tool becomes useful enough for that clientele to cause significant harm, people will start supporting its ban.