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<h1 class="text-center" id="title-text" data-typeit-id="1102246">Privacy is a human right.<span class="ti-cursor"
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On August 8th, 2022, the Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) sanctioned the smart contracts associated with
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Tornado Cash on the terms of facilitating money laundering. This influenced widespread acts of censorship on
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Ethereum to inhibit the usage of the protocol and ultimately labels all active users for seeking individual
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anonymity on-chain, as criminals. The public nature of accounting on distributed ledgers is a flaw, not a benefit.
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It's the act of substantiation and non-repudiation that gives this enabling technology its true value.
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The sanctimonious ideology that privacy should be only for the selected "faithful" few has huge implications for
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discrimination enacted through censorship, privacy is an individual right that everyone should be entitled to. The
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ongoing acts of surveillance authored by "the state" not only put individual sovereignty at risk but individuals'
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well-being. This is apparent in the recent travel rule legislation regarding digital currencies, as seen in the
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European Commission's recent Transfer of Funds Regulation (TFR) amendment. European law is puppeteered by the
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Financial Action Task Force (FATF) through what is called "directives". The FATF, in turn, is an overarching
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branch of the American government that has legal immunity, and no oversight although having global influence in
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regulation. These legislations not only create honeypots of individuals' financial data but set out to blacklist
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privacy-preserving technologies like Tornado, declaring a war on privacy.
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These are the same figures that have failed to regulate private equity's additional attacks on individual privacy,
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by accommodating the solicitation and commoditization of individuals' sensitive data. These people are not set out
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for your best interest, time and time again they have failed the common people. On the profiteering of
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individuals' data, Joseph Lubin - the man behind ConsenSyS - holds the power to de-anonymize almost every single
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Ethereum transaction. Given the notoriety and popularity of the infrastructure that he ultimately controls, as the
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majority shareholder of Infura and MetaMask. To no surprise, Infura and other RPC service providers like Alchemy
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were the first entities to censor relays to the Tornado contracts. Let us remind you, that these entities are
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actively profiling your transactional footprints, for reasons for solicitation and cooperation with authoritative
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figures to void your economic rights.
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The ripple effects of the sanctions also resonated with "decentralized" or, should we say, pseudo-decentralized
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protocols. Pocket Network, which solicits itself as a permissionless RPC relay protocol. Undertook efforts to
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censor all relays, the sheer misleading marketing should remind everyone not to trust venture-capital backed
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entities at face value. Who ultimately want to profit off individuals and will even lie to do such as that.
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Another notable accolade for these unjust acts of censorship goes to Flashbots, an MEV-specific Ethereum client
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for capitalizing on financial inefficiencies on-chain. Given that approximately 80% of Ethereum's hashrate uses
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their client this has immense implications and let us remind you, it is also a venture-backed entity. Last we save
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a special homage to TRM labs, which is a digital asset compliance firm to assist with the prevention of potential
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legal contingencies. Not only are this firm's tactics completely overamplifying cautionary measures but it is
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backed by entities that have clear conflicts of interest with the nature of the industry. Clients of theirs
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integrated frontend restrictions on addresses that have ever transacted with Tornado, either directly through
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multiple degrees of separation. Essentially restricting and mislabelling the large majority of Ethereum addresses.
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Here's a special shout-out to out to the servile TRM Labs customer base that is dYdX, Uniswap, AAVE, Balancer, Ren
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Protocol, and MakerDAO, all of which are funded by Silicon Valley vulture capital.
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Lest we forget, we saw 5 years of publicly funded and collective work of open-source software censored overnight.
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Microsoft - the corporate behemoth that tainted Github, once an open collaboration tool for publishing software -
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purged all repositories of the official Tornado Cash organization and even went so far as to censor all core
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contributor's personal accounts. This heinous overreach drastically stifles the education and innovation of
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zero-knowledge cryptography. Countless individuals referenced the source code for student curricula and
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experimentation, as officially stated by Johns Hopkins University professor Matthew D. Green through the
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advocating support of the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF). This is not the first time we've seen censorship
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of open source software, which in itself is a violation of free speech.
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The basis of which the sanctions concerning the protocol as a mixer are groundless, because of the presence of
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zero-knowledge cryptography in its systematic design. This guarantees, that only the original deposited assets
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that have been committed can only be redeemed, and not commingled funds. Peter Van Valkenburgh, a representative
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of Coin Center portrays this logic through the precise analogy of safety deposit boxes. It is evident, that the
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policymakers behind the sanctions do not understand the subject they are attempting to regulate. We'd like to
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thank both Coin Center and the EFF as the only organizations to advocate and take formal action against this
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totalitarianism.
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It is apparent that the true colors of actors and organizations reveal themselves in a time of crisis, and we
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encourage everyone who believes in freedoms to boycott and scrutinize the entities that have over-willingly aided
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the infringement of digital rights. As a group of dedicated contributors to Tornado, old, new, and future. We
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pledge an allegiance to circumvent these acts of censorship. Privacy is an individual right that is open to
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everyone. Community resources to archive and accelerate the development and education of the source code have been
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deployed, alongside a Telegram server to align community. Active research priorities have revealed themselves at
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the birth of the crisis for the organization going forward. A privacy-preserving, censorship-resistant, and
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network-agonistic RPC solution will be actively developed to ensure the accessibility of the protocol.
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Additionally, the legacy infrastructure of the internet is not a suitable place for the freedom of expression
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under the reign of ICANN. Thus, efforts will be undertaken to re-empower the original premise of the world wide
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web.
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Join the fight against the surveillance state.
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- Tornado Cash Community
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