Comments by "Stephen Jenkins" (@stephenjenkins7971) on "Tornado Cash Gets Shut Down" video.

Did he do anything provably illegal? Or do you want the gubment to just arrest people because you feel they did worse?
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@Zentosi It's even more dystopian to allow these crypto bros have complete control over the financial system; literally every dystopian corporate film in a nutshell. To be able to circumvent it without any counter-balance.
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@chosenundead3174 And how do you know the code wasn't intended to cause harm??? As far as we can tell; this code was intentionally allowing money laundering -are you so naïve to think he wasn't aware? Just as speech is not entirely protected, everything else isn't entirely protected either; the public good has precedence over an individual's liberty as the individual can violate everyone else's rights.
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@XxjeffersonDkidxX Her road because he taxes pitch into it, and if its her "owner's road", then everything you have is your "owner's road" as well.
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Government is already limited by itself and other factors like corporations to begin with; and it doesn't have unlimited access either. It can only tax you so much, and it often clashes with corporate entities like banks. You're conflating the overall system with government; and what you're advocating doesn't at all help the public.
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@joez6798 US roads are among the best on the planet; the problem is that there are so many of them. And how the hell do you have transparency with the treasury?
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@XxjeffersonDkidxX And the government restricts what you can do in your property, so its not hers you merely use it. Your logic is self defeating.
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@CLAUDIOILTEXANO Well yeah, no matter how you twist reality; Julian Assange is a criminal. Even if you think he did a good thing, how he did it can never NOT be criminal to any stable institution.
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@chosenundead3174 So if I made a program which automatically unlocks door locks; and people start using it to break into people's homes, that's fine by you? At a certain point you can't hide behind "it's just a program bro" when it can be so abused. A VPN by contrast only creates the means to hide where you are on the internet, it doesn't facilitate literal monetary fraud. The difference is massive.
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@DDracee Innocence until proven guilty only works in court, not in setting up a court case; the latter only requires probable cause. And if the gun manufacturer goes underground with non-existent government oversight then you'd bet that it's a government's literal JOB to nail that down. "Actual criminals" being people you don't like while people you do get off scot-free.
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