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Is Bitcoin Free Speech?
- rtpg 13y agoThis article tries way too hard to act like Schrem's indictment is an attack on the Bitcoin system itself. If you look at the complaint (http://www.justice.gov/usao/nys/pressreleases/January14/SchremFaiellaChargesPR/Faiella,%20Robert%20M.%20and%20Charlie%20Shrem%20Complaint.pdf http://www.justice.gov/usao/nys/pressreleases/January14/Schr...) most of it is spent explaining Liberty Reserve's system, but then goes into great detail showing how Schrem conspired to launder money for BTCKing, with e-mails and everything. Money laundering is money laundering, and here it was obviously done in a very willing way, and is a very specific case. I doubt this could be used to any real effect in other spaces.
- eli_gottlieb 13y agoJust a scary thought that occurred to me: creating an equation between excludable internet property and free-as-in-freedom speech is going to wreak flaming hell on any notion of free culture.