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 Tornado Cash judge says code isn't speech and control isn't needed to qualify as MSB. Article coming tomorrow. GN 🫂 

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 Yikes 
 MSB? 
 Money service business 
 Well I fat-fingered that emoji lol
Clearly I  should be respecting my own GN post and go to sleep 
 We need to normalize privacy asap
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 Must we print more tshirts? 
 Well that judge couldn’t be any more wrong. 
 Not a good sign for the Samourai boys.  I think they were waiting to see what happened in this case.   
 Obviously loses due to Supreme Court precedent. We’ve got to stop acting like the underdogs. We are the victors. We have the Constitution on our side. If bitcoin loses, America falls.

America will not fall. 
 Code has no more functional capability than a  poison recipe written on a piece of paper. If there is anything reprehensible its not the act of writing the code or the poison recipe but more the act of executing the code and/or cooking the recipe. 
 Way better analogy than what I came up with 😅.

You should be lawyer. 
 We’re all going to have to move to El Salvador aren’t we 
 This is terrible news. But the way to preserve our rights is to exercise them. Code is speech. So write it and speak up!



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 First instance judge, right? 
 Need to keep fighting this 
 Breaking news: Spawn of Satan found running an unjust court room and persecuting the innocent in violation of the law... again. 
 We need to be supportive of the defendant here. Much like the #samourai case.
Code is speech. The precedent has already been established years ago.

#freetornado #freesamourai

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 That does not sound a good thing. I wonder sometime whether these judges of subject experts to be able to make such proclamations. 
 This is ridicolous 
 Judge will be overturned on appeal. Which district court is this I forgot? 
 If I understand correctly, the argument isn't as simple as "code is speech", but "writing code is speech" right? Executing code would be taking action and fortunately the developers only write code and any and all execution of the code was lawful.

Like making a knife and testing it to cut meat, fruit, but then a consumer 4 years later uses it to kill people. 
 We are misguided if we think we can *win* based on the code is speech argument alone. 

Bitcoin is money.

That is why we care. That is why they are fighting it. 

The fight that really counts will be: bitcoin is money. 
 That’s like saying math isn’t free speech because it can calculate results. Words are a means of logic, just like code. LLMs demonstrate this idea quite literally.

Math and code are speech. 🎤