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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 a human right.<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
+On August 8th, 2022, the Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) 
-the original Tornado Cash protocol and building on top of it!
+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.
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-We hold to the principle that surveillance is dangerous 
+The sanctimonious ideology that privacy should be only for the selected 
-and violent, and that wanting secrecy is something natural 
+"faithful" few has huge implications for discrimination enacted through 
-to all human beings.
+censorship, privacy is an individual right that everyone should be 
+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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-If you click the button below, you will find access links to the application,
+These are the same figures that have failed to regulate private equity's
-otherwise, in the top right, you will find social and repository
+ additional attacks on individual privacy, by accommodating the 
-links tied to this community.
+solicitation and commoditization of individuals' sensitive data. 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.
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-<a href="https://thedefiant.io/tornado-cash-us-sanctions">
+The ripple effects of the sanctions also resonated with "decentralized" 
-Please note that the Tornado Cash contracts have been sanctioned in the US, where it is considered illegal for citizens to interact with them.
+or, should we say, pseudo-decentralized protocols. Pocket Network, which
-</a>
+ 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. 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>
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+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.
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+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>
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+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.
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+Join the fight against the surveillance state.
+<br>
+- Tornado Cash Community
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