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People here are overwhelmingly against privacy when it enables criminals to hide. Almost every crypto thread is dominated by concerns about KYC and AML.
by notch898a 4y ago
People here are overwhelmingly against privacy when it enables criminals to hide. Almost every crypto thread is dominated by concerns about KYC and AML.
- wkat4242 4y agoI don't think so? For example signal's decision to leave the UK if they mandate a back door was very well received here.
- notch898a 4y agoThe dichotomy indicates that isn't the fundamental principle driving it.
- yjftsjthsd-h 4y agoOr, possibly, that there is more than one person on HN, and some people might have slightly different opinions.
- JohnFen 4y agoOr, possibly, that some people don't agree that cryptocurrency shares the same fundamental principle. Cryptocurrency isn't actually that anonymous and certainly isn't private, after all. Or that people have objections to it on completely different grounds, not on anonymity/privacy grounds. Plus, what yjftsjthsd-h said. There are many reasons why what you perceive as an inconsistency may not, in fact, be.
- notch898a 4y agoI, in generally, (absent some exceptions like privacy coins) agree with you. But the assertion wasn't that crypto is private, it's that the crypto threads evoke anti-privacy viewpoints like the need for KYC. KYC is inherently anti-private, it's a warrantless compelled search by the government of your papers for identity. My perception at least is different attitudes on average on those threads, like people are more accepting that privacy needs to be invaded to prevent criminals.