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Building a mixing service that allows people to buy stuff without their employers being able to track it is a legitimate, non-trivial reason.

These mixers are privacy enhancers. Privacy is a general term, and doesn't have to relate to evading the government. If you don't want your employer to know you've bought an NFT from your company's direct competitor, that is a privacy request too.



Except that privacy is not some human right enshrined in law that usurps other laws.

If you facilitate money laundering that is still a crime even if the intent was for legitimate reasons like privacy.


Article 12 of the United Nations's Universal Declaration of Human Rights [0] would like a word.

[0] https://www.un.org/en/about-us/universal-declaration-of-huma....


so when are we arresting engineers who built roads and trucks that were used for money laundering?


At least 2013 put probably for much longer.

https://www.wired.com/2013/03/alfred-anaya/


Well, maybe we should start lobbying to make it so.




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