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[–] PiraHxCx@lemmy.ml 8 points 14 hours ago* (last edited 14 hours ago) (5 children)

Why the massive downvotes here? I think bitcoin is bullshit as much as the next lemming, but the whole situation you may cheer now because it's a cryptobro getting fucked is what is going to happen to you tomorrow.

Summary: Guy basically made a Tor for crypto so transactions can't be directly linked between users, and the government charged him with a bunch of bullshit claims and completely ignored the law to destroy it. Yeah, there is some PR stunt going on now with a presidential pardon, but that doesn't mean the service is going back up.

In countries like mine, subjected to USA imperialism, USA puppets are already equating drug dealers to terrorists, and they also equate immigrants and refugees to drug dealers, so guess what?

If you visit the Tails website you are already put on a list of extremists, probably if you use Tor as well, it won't be hard for any of the privacy tools you like to make you be called a terrorist too, Graphene is for criminals, isn't it? We are just on whim away from a powerful asshole to decided that, because even if you believe you are "playing by the rules", laws don't matter. If it didn't matter even for rich cryptobros trying to secure privacy for their users, imagine for you and your wishes of privacy?

[–] chloroken@lemmy.ml 9 points 14 hours ago (4 children)

Clickbait title.

No post body.

YouTube link.

Crypto horseshit.

This post broke every single social rule of Lemmy.

[–] PiraHxCx@lemmy.ml 1 points 13 hours ago* (last edited 7 hours ago) (1 children)

What is your definition of clickbait title? I consider clickbait misleading, misinforming or non-informing, something like "He Built a Privacy Tool. You Won't Believe What Happened Next."

In this case here the title provides all the correct info about the video content - yes, he was arrested for building a privacy tool, he wasn't charged for money laundering despite what real clickbait headlines might be saying.

[–] chloroken@lemmy.ml 0 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

You got your answer. Time to stop replying.

[–] PiraHxCx@lemmy.ml 2 points 7 hours ago* (last edited 3 hours ago)

I was curious about your definition of clickbait title and how it fits this one though

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