The early cryptography wars were fought over code as speech. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2015/04/remembering-case-established-code-speech https://www.eff.org

The early cryptography wars were fought over code as speech. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2015/04/remembering-case-established-code-speech https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2015/04/remembering-case-estab... There is an argument to be made that running software that speaks a protocol is an extension of speech. The mental position that wants to ban cryptocurrency is the same one that that wanted to ban/suppress cryptography in the 90s.