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-<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>
+<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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+
 Welcome to tornado.ws (also .social): a community dedicated to maintaining
 the original Tornado Cash protocol and building on top of it!
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+
 We hold to the principle that surveillance is dangerous 
 and violent, and that wanting secrecy is something natural 
 to all human beings.
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-If you click the button below, you will find access links to the application,
-otherwise, in the top right, you will find social and repository
-links tied to this community.
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-<a href="https://thedefiant.io/tornado-cash-us-sanctions">
+
+<a style="text-align: center;" href="https://thedefiant.io/tornado-cash-us-sanctions">
 Please note that the Tornado Cash contracts have been sanctioned in the US, where it is considered illegal for citizens to interact with them.
 </a>
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+<button class="tornado-button mt-4 mb-2" data-bs-toggle="modal" data-bs-target="#statementModal">Click to read a statement on the sanctions</button>
+<br>
+<p>
+</p>
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+<br>
+To access the app, find links by clicking the button below,
+otherwise, in the top right of this page, you will find social and repository
+links tied to this community.
+
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 <p class="mt-5"> btw, this website is open-source, just curl it.</p>
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+On August 8th, 2022, the Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) 
+sanctioned the smart contracts associated with Tornado Cash on the terms
+ 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.
+<br>
+<p>
+</p>
+This is but one link in the chain of manipulative actions which serve 
+the goal of bringing into question, and thus attempting to also bring 
+into the context of legal frameworks, all the freedom-enabling elements 
+which define the life of an individual being. If it becomes necessary to assert
+that privacy is a right, it is also clear that this concept has been opened up 
+to legal attacks and rhetorical hijacking by malicious actors. These are the malicious 
+actors who at the same time do not adhere to their own laws, the stripping away of personal 
+freedom is for them simply a means to an end, and regardless of their motivations, the exact 
+way by which evil perpetuates has exactly always been by enacting violence in the name of something 
+believed to be "Good", which is objectively violence regardless of whether a perpetrator 
+truly believes it to be "Good", and should thus be resisted via disobedience.
+<br>
+<p>
+</p>
+All of the formerly mentioned is not only apparent in OFAC's designation, but also numerous 
+proposed and/or accepted regulative frameworks regarding digital currencies, as an example 
+the European Commission's Transfer of Funds Regulation (TFR) amendment, and the MiCA regulatory 
+framework. 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-enabling technologies like Tornado, declaring a war on privacy. Make no 
+mistake, any regulative framework introduced is a Trojan Horse which will be used 
+to only sell the story of adopting cryptocurrencies in markets, while in reality 
+destroying the safety guarantees of permissionlesss and/or anonymous money, with the 
+goal being protecting traditional permissioned financial systems which have historically
+ only served to exploit, deceive and manipulate the individual.
+<br>
+<p>
+</p>
+All of this is orchestrated by the same figures that have failed to 
+regulate private equity's additional attacks on individual privacy, by accommodating the 
+solicitation and commoditization of individuals' sensitive data. Again, these 
+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.
+<br>
+<p>
+</p>
+The ripple effects of the sanctions also resonated with "decentralized" 
+or, should we say, pseudo-decentralized protocols. Pocket Network, which
+ solicits itself as a permissionless RPC relay protocol, undertook 
+efforts to censor all relays. The sheer misleading marketing should 
+remind everyone not to trust venture-capital backed entities at face 
+value. Another notable accolade for these unjust acts of censorship 
+goes to Flashbots, a MEV-specific Ethereum client for capitalizing on 
+financial inefficiencies on-chain. Given that a large percentage 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 Matrix 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.
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