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Well, at least I was able to get you to tap out instantly. Okay. Please understand, your strawman is very shallow and doesn't address the core issues at all. Yes, we all know that money laundering is not free speech. AND? Besides money laundering, end-to-end encryption enables: Terrorists and criminals coordinating violent activities
Planning shadowy Silk Road type sales and arrangements
Violating copyright and robbing the RIAA and MPAA of profits
Posting child pornography
Enabling sex trafficking
and much more
Tons of these things are arguably far more dangerous than money laundering. The fact that they are NOT money laundering, doesn't mean we should just ignore the fact that end-to-end encryption and allowing people to "self-host" their own peer to peer software, is dangerous to law and order.On the other hand, if we don't have the ability to do "small things" anonymously, like pay for food and shelter with cash, our societies will become more centralized and authoritarian, as we have seen with the social credit system, crackdown on religious activity throughout China, and the coming central bank digital currencies across all countries. The FATF actions will make it a global regime, and the deplatforming and social credit systems may become the norm depending on how the geopolitical players like USA and China leverage these global organizations. PS: I am probably more vocal against proof-of-work than you are. See my public statements in ArsTechnica, BBC, Newsweek: https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2018/03/there...: Magarshak went on to note that he has long criticized what he says is an "arms race to waste electricity to solve hashes." Such arms races are created by currency mining based on what's known as "proof of work" computing. |