[fallingsquirrel]

Should we also shut down the internet backbone because people are committing crimes with it? At this point they really have no excuse, we know the internet is used for illegal activity, yet they still continue to route packets.

Should we jail Rivest, Shamir, and Adleman because their work is used to encrypt illegal data? They wrote the paper. They published it. It's impossible to turn that system off, and as you said, that's not a defense.

[eropple]

There are legal uses of "the internet backbone" that greatly outweigh the illegal ones.

Non-KYC money transfer systems do not have such a raison d'etre.