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> If you know your product is being used by criminals to do crime and you respond by shrugging your shoulders, I’m not sure what the expected outcome is supposed to be other than getting dinged.

You are aware that criminals use all the same thing as you an me right? They use toothbrush too... should Coldgate not shrug their shoulders? Sure they don't commit crime with them, but they do use them. Want something they use to commit crime? Guns to kill, cars to evade, bags to carry the money, etc... what should all theses companies do? Let's go even closer, about privacy, what about balaclava manufacturer, it's the default thing considered for banks robbers, yet they still sell them!

I don't have all the details in this case, my guess is that Tornado Cash were aware that it was used by theses countries and could have stopped theses specific accounts (it would keep going for sure without their knowledge using alternative accounts obviously, just like many of theses countries still are able to get Windows illegally, but at least they would no longer be aware of theses accounts). In that case it does makes sense and I agree with the direct sanction of Tornado Cash. I would still disagree with the blanket sanction over the open source contributors, as they might have contributed without knowing it was used by sanctioned country.

Writing all that made me think of a question: do you believe contributor to Windows should be sanctioned too knowing that Windows is used in some of the sanctioned countries?

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> would still disagree with the blanket sanction over the open source contributors

No contributors have been sanctioned. Three leaders had their GitHub accounts deleted, from what I can tell, and are trying to misrepresent that as a threat to everyone who ever touched the project.