Convicting a Tornado Cash builder chills development of privacy and security tools, EFF’s @aaronmackey told DL News. “Holding a developer of beneficial tools responsible for the wrongdoing of others is short-sighted and harms everyone’s privacy online.” https://www.dlnews.com/articles/regulation/why-the-tornado-cash-alexey-pertsev-case-harms-everyone/
@eff @aaronmackey maybe this is your SPLC moment, but this person in question is very hard to sympathize or convincingly advocate for
@AfroScribble It's not about this guy at all. It's about precedent. Should Tor developers be liable for drug sellers hiding themselves using Tor? Should GIMP developers be liable for someone editing CSAM using GIMP? It should be obvious that the answer is no, but apparently it isn't obvious. Some people can argue that Tor shouldn't exist and GIMP should upload edited images to a server that will check them.
