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