Vojtěch Zeisek wrote:
Dne pondělí 15. srpna 2022 17:47:46 CEST, doug demaio napsal(a):
Firstly, last week, the United States Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) sanctioned open source software Tornado Cash. Make no mistake, this was a sanctioning of a technology. Writing code is a freedom and we as an open-source community value the freedoms to use, share, study, modify and share code. I don’t believe any of us want this freedoms to be taken away. Was it really sanction of *technology* and not it's *usage*?
"As a result of today’s action, all property and interests in property of the entity above, Tornado Cash, that is in the United States or in the possession or control of U.S. persons is blocked and must be reported to OFAC." This is where GitHub had to act as it is a US company. Full statement is https://home.treasury.gov/news/press-releases/jy0916 SN - the project is saying... https://twitter.com/TornadoCash/status/1557048526986780677?s=20&t=Ikq6EPZJkIqTwkbS2vyUeg
The third event was that Dutch authorities arrested the developer Alexey Pertsev. There is little information about his arrest, but it appears to be done to intimidate developers from expressing their freedom to develop free software. This seems like strong interpretation. I might be missing something, but would You have any supporting info for this?
You can find the official statement about the arrest of the developer from Dutch authorities here. https://www.fiod.nl/arrest-of-suspected-developer-of-tornado-cash/