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Dutch court convicts engineer to 5 years for maintaining crypto mixer Tornado Cash (www.patrick-breyer.de)

submitted 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) by grandma@sh.itjust.works to c/privacy@lemmy.ml

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[–] delirious_owl@discuss.online 5 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (3 children)

Wasn't the arrest over a year ago? How much time is left on the sentence?

This is terrible, but 5 years is pretty tolerable. Assange is in locked up for being a journalist and faces life in tortuous conditions.

Also, write your MEP and vote pirate party.

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