Did Elon the dumb fucking moron break X again or is this just happening to me

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link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-031-10078-9_11

Annual reminder that we are sending people to prison because the moon is in capricorn

inshallah

Looks like there's interesting times ahead for Chainalysis again. Full story at the end of this post, which is well worth the read if you're interested in blockchain surveillance or, you know, justice or whatever. Alexey Pertsev, the Tornado Cash developer convicted last year for money laundering in the Netherlands, has requested access to a Chainalysis Government license as well as insights into how Chainalysis clustering and labeling works to confirm evidence presented at his trial last year. According to the defense, addresses Pertsev has been provided with by the prosecution do not add up to what the Government claims when tracing funds manually on Etherscan. This is due to the prosecution’s use of Chainalysis software which clusters addresses together, a defense expert witness stated – a claim the prosecution denies. So far, the evidence of illicit funds flowing through Tornado Cash presented by the prosecution used to convict Pertsev last year does not appear to go beyond the citing of media reports. To prepare for Pertsev’s appeal, the defense wants to know what funds flowed where and when, noting that so far it has only been presented with spreadsheets that lack critical information, such as transaction hashes. “The defense argues that it's not enough for the government to simply point to some media articles to prove that these crimes actually happened,” says , who attended the hearing this morning. The court will decide on Oct 2 whether it will grant the defense’s requests. Zap if u like this (and bc I am poor). ty ⚡ Full story: https://www.therage.co/pertsev-defense-challenges-chainalysis/

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Anti-money laundering laws exist for one reason, and one reason only: to control the population and penalize those who dissent via extrajudicial processes. From NGOs organizing against the war on terror to supporters of disfavorable political movements, one wrong post on social media may make you lose access to any service that depends on your bank account. To employ such targeted exclusions – via sanctions or regular bank account closures – the global financial system *must* make sure that every transaction taking place is identifiable and attributable to an individual. AML does not stop crime, but functions as a system of narrative control that would become unworkable if the right to privacy in finance would exist. This weaponization of money has become the greatest tool in the West’s oppression of dissent, and we are all paying the price for it, being subjected to the dragnet surveillance it imposes. Read: Money as a tool for political censorship, the fifth article in our educational series together with 🧡 https://www.therage.co/money-as-a-tool-for-political-censorship/

Thank you for mansplaining this to me, I would have never guessed