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Tornado Cash Sanctions: The Most Significant Crypto Overreach by the US Government Yet?

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Using Sanction Power to Take Crypto Off of Public Source Co Distribution

Several developers who have worked on software associated with the tornado cash protocol have had their get hub accounts shut down. Under current case law set during the fight over p g p and crypted communication tools in the nineties, code is considered speech. "I think basically we're looking right at the chilling effect of an unconstitutional restriction on speech," says Van walkenberg.

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