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Re:Arrest of suspected developer of Tornado Cash by carlosdp on Friday August 12, 2022 @03:23PM (#32442881)
That makes no sense and I don't think that lines up with liability.

Every hammer maker knows some people use hammers as murder weapons. Their continued manufacturing of hammers obviously does not constitute a criminal act.

This argument makes no sense, and while I'm not a lawyer, I doubt it actually has legal basis (at least in the US).

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Re:Arrest of suspected developer of Tornado Cash by cantSpellSober on Friday August 12, 2022 @04:07PM (#32443292)
Mens rea isn't some radical idea. If hitting specific sales targets on Bushmaster AR-style hammers is tied to your bonus you might end up settling for $73 million when you get caught pushing them too hard and they're used in a bunch of massacres.
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Re:Arrest of suspected developer of Tornado Cash by carlosdp on Friday August 12, 2022 @04:27PM (#32443477)
The developers of Tornado Cash don't directly profit from its use (the article claims that erroneously), it's a fully permissionless immutable smart contract without a fee component.

So this argument, while potentially valid, doesn't apply here.

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Re:Arrest of suspected developer of Tornado Cash by cantSpellSober on Friday August 12, 2022 @04:59PM (#32443821)
Whether or not the developers acted with criminal intent is of great importance, if not philosophically at least legally
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