EFFDeeplinks: Tornado Cash Civil Decision Limits the Reach of the Treasury Department’s Actions while Skirting a Full First Amendment Analysis https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2023/08/tornado-cash-civil-decision-limits-reach-treasury-departments-actions-while #Coders'RightsProject #FinancialCensorship #ExportControls #LegalAnalysis #Blockchain #Anonymity

EFFDeeplinks: Tornado Cash Civil Decision Limits the Reach of the Treasury Department’s Actions while Skirting a Full First Amendment Analysis https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2023/08/tornado-cash-civil-decision-limits-reach-treasury-departments-actions-while #Coders'RightsProject #FinancialCensorship #ExportControls #LegalAnalysis #Blockchain #Anonymity

EFFDeeplinks: Tornado Cash Civil Decision Limits the Reach of the Treasury Department’s Actions while Skirting a Full First Amendment Analysis https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2023/08/tornado-cash-civil-decision-limits-reach-treasury-departments-actions-while #Coders'RightsProject #FinancialCensorship #ExportControls #LegalAnalysis #Blockchain #Anonymity

EFFDeeplinks: Tornado Cash Civil Decision Limits the Reach of the Treasury Department’s Actions while Skirting a Full First Amendment Analysis https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2023/08/tornado-cash-civil-decision-limits-reach-treasury-departments-actions-while #Coders'RightsProject #FinancialCensorship #ExportControls #LegalAnalysis #Blockchain #Anonymity

EFFDeeplinks: Tornado Cash Civil Decision Limits the Reach of the Treasury Department’s Actions while Skirting a Full First Amendment Analysis https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2023/08/tornado-cash-civil-decision-limits-reach-treasury-departments-actions-while #Coders'RightsProject #FinancialCensorship #ExportControls #LegalAnalysis #Blockchain #Anonymity

@raeaw I certainly do approve of the general stance against #FinancialCensorship (https://www.eff.org/issues/financial-censorship) however... that very quickly gave way to grifting that never paid more than lip service if even that to the idea.

@PJ_Evans @atomicpoet @cstross And that's without getting into the intentional #FinancialCensorship (https://www.eff.org/issues/financial-censorship) political pressure & religious fundamentalism force on even the dox-full transaction systems for idiotic reasons.

Paypal is very fond of banning arbitrary users for absolutely no reason and with no recourse. Including users receiving money, where they will then proceed to just steal the received funds, again with little recourse.

@neilcar @cstross #FinancialCensorship (https://www.eff.org/issues/financial-censorship) is unfortunately across various fundraising platforms and payment processors.

It's one major problem with allowing payment processors to establish de-facto #monopolies.

Payment processors with their effective #oligopoly and financial #censorship are a problem.

https://pluralistic.net/2022/09/29/go-nuts-show-nuts/

https://pluralistic.net/2020/12/15/iowa-vs-16-tons-of-bricks/

Who elected them as arbiters of morality? No one. They should sell their business if they're not willing to act as impartial infrastructure providers.

Why haven't they been broken up yet?

#AntiMonopolism #Antitrust #FinancialCensorship