0 sats \ 1 reply \ @siggy47 25 May 2023 \ parent \ on: Would Closing the Gates Behind Bitcoin Be Good or Bad? bitcoin
I think the Biden Administration and Congress, to a large extent, would like to crush anything that competes with their debt based system and the US dollar. However, in the US the Supreme Court has deemed software code as speech, protected under the First Amendment. Check out this case. I was very interested in PGP back in the day, and I remember this litigation.
The EFF was pretty successful.
If you want to read about this stuff, you can start here:
https://www.stitcher.com/show/the-history-of-computing/episode/pgp-and-the-first-amendment-78101225
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @bitslinger OP 26 May 2023
Super interesting. I didn't realize there was a US SCC case on code as speech.
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