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Re:Kazakhstan to restrict crypto miners amid power shortages by crummy on Wednesday November 03, 2021 @06:48PM (#29101481)
How is the first amendment relevant here?
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Re:Kazakhstan to restrict crypto miners amid power shortages by rfd4sgmk8u on Wednesday November 03, 2021 @07:05PM (#29101663)
The early cryptography wars were fought over code as speech.

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2015/04/remembering-case-estab...

There is an argument to be made that running software that speaks a protocol is an extension of speech.

The mental position that wants to ban cryptocurrency is the same one that that wanted to ban/suppress cryptography in the 90s.

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