Re:Infrastructure bill cryptocurrency surveillance provision...
by throwaway0a5e on Tuesday August 03, 2021 @11:36AM
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>It is so far so vaguely worded (maybe deliberately?) that the government can target everyone in the ecosystem with penalties:
That's the point. They reserve the power of arbitrary enforcement early on because they don't know what the stuff they won't like will look like. So then they'll go after anything they don't like and leave it up to the courts and the legislature to clean up the mess.
That's the point. They reserve the power of arbitrary enforcement early on because they don't know what the stuff they won't like will look like. So then they'll go after anything they don't like and leave it up to the courts and the legislature to clean up the mess.