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Re:U.S. Treasury sanctions virtual currency mixer Tornado Cash by notch656a on Monday August 08, 2022 @03:02PM (#32389556)
We should also prosecute the road crew, because everyone knows when they build the road criminals absolutely will use it for crime. It's facilitating.

Road crew like many tornado cash users, they have no "mens rea" intent to aid money launderers, even though they have knowledge it can happen. By your below logic the courts find Tornado Cash user not guilty of "mens rea" money laundering.

>Edit to reply to your edit (why not post a reply?): that's exactly why they have been added to the sanctions list explicitly, rather than prosecuting users for money laundering.

Awesome, roads used by money launderers should be sanctioned as well so "legitimate" users can't use them either, everyone who built them knew they would be used by criminals and so do the people paying the fuel taxes that maintain them so criminals can drive on them. I'm replying this way because I've run out of replies (I can only reply 5 times per 3 hours).

Re:U.S. Treasury sanctions virtual currency mixer Tornado Cash by kube-system on Monday August 08, 2022 @03:09PM (#32389638)
No. Western court systems are not a dumb box of logic gates; they evaluate mens rea.

Edit to reply to your edit (why not post a reply?): that's exactly why they have been added to the sanctions list explicitly, rather than prosecuting users for money laundering.