Comment on U.S. Government Removes Tornado Cash Sanctions
sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works 5 weeks agoAnd you do not need the payment for your order of bell peppers and toilet paper to be private.
Yes I do.
Just because you don’t value your privacy doesn’t mean nobody does. It’s none of the government’s business what I buy, nor is it my bank’s. They’ll need to find another way to catch criminals than forcing me to be transparent about what brand of condoms I like.
Alphane_Moon@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
You debasing the notion of privacy and government spying if you think your toilet paper purchases are relevant in the context of this discussion.
sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works 5 weeks ago
It absolutely is relevant.
The government shouldn’t be able to know whether I’m buying toilet paper, ammunition, or anti-government books. There should be no way to track purchases to me unless I opt-in and provide it (e.g. register a warranty or something). They don’t need to know both sides of any transaction to enforce any law, because that would be a violation of my 4th amendment rights (or whatever privacy/anti-search laws you have in your country).
I happen to not commit crimes, generally speaking, but that’s completely irrelevant to the discussion about whether my purchases should be in the clear. Ideally, everywhere would accept some form of privacy-oriented cryptocurrency, like Monero. How money gets from me to the vendor is completely unimportant to law enforcement, all they need is a record of transactions for tax purposes, and there’s nothing stopping the store from tracking that in the same way they do cash.
Bakkoda@sh.itjust.works 5 weeks ago
Tell me you don’t understand privacy without telling us you don’t understand privacy.