The hearing saw the Dutch public prosecutor announce money laundering charges for the first time. The prosecutor had said little more about the case than a press release, but now accused Pertsev of facilitating the processing of dirty money by writing the Tornado Cash code.
Who do they go after next? Keet.io maybe, because they wrote a P2P tool that has E2E encryption and that will (presumably) be "facilitating" some illegal activity at some future point in time? Where does it end?
We've been here before.
Code is speech.
Speech is a fundamental right.
Financial privacy is a fundamental right.
Who do they go after next? Keet.io maybe, because they wrote a P2P tool that has E2E encryption and that will (presumably) be "facilitating" some illegal activity at some future point in time? Where does it end?