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by TeMPOraL 1850 days ago
Encryption is tolerated because it also allows protecting regular people from criminals, in ways which allowed to build e-commerce on top, and ultimately enabling great economic boom on the Internet. If it was only about securing messaging, it would likely have been banned already.
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People forget what the 90s was like (if you had to export out of usa)
You just haven’t had enough time to see why cryptocurrencies should be tolerated. Eventually you will.