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by FDSGSG 1663 days ago
Tether is obviously the kind of business the government fundamentally doesn't like. Whether or not what they're doing violates any current laws doesn't matter, they are yet another Liberty Reserve enabling large scale money laundering.

Even in an imaginary world where Tether is a completely legitimate business not operating in violation of any existing laws, there would be no way for them to make government investigations go away within any reasonable timeframe.

It is simply ridiculous of you to suggest that we could expect the government to play fair when dealing with Tether.

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> they are yet another Liberty Reserve enabling large scale money laundering.

> there would be no way for them to make government investigations go away within any reasonable timeframe.

Yes, this is usually the problem with breaking the law (such as facilitating large scale money laundering). You seem to believe this is a bug, while every other citizen views this as a feature.

People breaking the law cannot making investigations go away. And?

Sorry, I'm not interested in taking part in your weird struggle against Tether.

I am obviously not defending Tether, I do not have a single good thing to say about Tether. But unlike you seem to be, I'm not emotionally invested in what happens to Tether.

I was simply calling out the obvious bad faith argument presented by wmf. Even if Tether isn't violating any laws, the US government is going to go out of their way to get them.

>You seem to believe this is a bug, while every other citizen views this as a feature.

I have said precisely nothing that could be interpreted by a person of ordinary intelligence to suggest such a belief. This is something you have created inside your own head. I wonder why?

> Sorry, I'm not interested in taking part in your weird struggle against Tether.

Cool, let's just leave it then. I don't give two shits about Tether. In fact, I really hope it's legit. I don't want to see people get burned.