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Re:Arrest of suspected developer of Tornado Cash by colechristensen on Friday August 12, 2022 @06:19PM (#32444642)
Having a tool to shoot someone is a right written into the US constitution. There are a variety of circumstances where you are within your rights to use this deadly force.

Tools to hide the source or destination of funds, i.e. to launder money, are not legal anywhere and explicitly illegal in various ways. Providing them as a service to others is explicitly illegal.

Building, selling, owning, and using a gun are all legal in general, only specific ways of doing those things are not.

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Re:Arrest of suspected developer of Tornado Cash by pksebben on Friday August 12, 2022 @07:21PM (#32445137)
"legal" != "legitimate". the Iraq war was legal. banks turning a profit off the 08 crash was legal. slavery was legal. The constitution was written in the dark ages by folks that thought slavery was A-OK and it's a dead document. your government (ours,I guess, if you wanted to get pedantic) sucks, dude.
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