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Only saw this link now - should subscribe to your comments because I'm missing things!
"Merely writing code without ill intent is not a crime."
Respectfully, there is no intent element to getting first amendment protection for the mere publication of speech. Nor should intent enter into the question of whether by publishing code one is “transmitting” or not.
This is what is a bit worrying. As a coder of deterministic stuffs, I feel "intent" is super fuzzy. It basically mixes opinion, bias, narrative, favoritism... into a threatening legal issue. So to me, this is as bad as Biden's Infra bill that made every developer, including Bitcoin Core developers, a potential target. With the current US administration, a dev better make sure to be disgustingly rich so that you can buy favors.
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