I'll post my (mildly sarcastic) response to the CEO's answers here instead of in Wasabi's thread:
We do not care who you are and what you do with your bitcoins! We don't want to know. Unfortunately, some people do collect data, attach it to bitcoin addresses and make decisions based on that information. The company is getting in trouble and harassed because apparently some of the users of our coordinator are so-called “criminals”, according to the people keeping up these databases.
We are not saying that the database is correct, as we do not agree with most of the classifications
So you're telling me someone harassed the company until they paid them for data that may not even be correct? Isn't that extortion?
we want to be able to see the same information that apparently others already have. We don’t want to do any chain surveillance ourselves, so we would rather just buy that information from others.
It sounds to me like someone made up a business of pointing fingers and now forces people to buy their idea. Don't do it. If nobody would do it, nobody else would be "forced to join".
If you knew a pedophile/murderer was eating at your restaurant, would you serve him?
If I told you to give me 20 bucks, so I can tell you which one of your customers is a murderer without any evidence, would you pay me? I've done the same to other restaurants in your area, so you should join the mob mentality, right?