Quote from: franky1 on Today at 04:10:50 PM

[...] yep you want to pretend its not your claim.... with your new silly divert that the meanings dont mean the same due to some time machine involvement of past/future pretense...

Okay, so if someone points out that you can't read for shit, you can avoid the whole issue by calling it a "silly divert". Where did you pick up that tactic, the latest issue of Smooth Brain Weekly?

Seriously, stop being so paranoid and just try to have a normal conversation...

My post contained three points which I'll elaborate on in an ill-advised effort to get to the bottom of this perplexing mess (not the dumpster fire that is this thread, but the confusing exchange we've just had):

Point A

There is a difference between being a developer and writing code. It's like the difference between being a welder and welding something together. One is a job description, the other is an action. I don't believe anybody in this thread ever believed that anyone was arrested based on their job description. Of course, this point is so mind-numbingly stupid that I can't believe I had to make it in the first place, and it wouldn't even have occurred to me, if not for this ridiculous quote of yours:

Quote from: franky1 on Today at 10:47:58 AM

[...] it has nothing to do with "just being a developer" Eg just knowing C++

Point B

Blindly believing that the stated reason for an arrest encapsulates the whole truth and reveals all the motives behind it is shockingly naive.

Point C

This arrest does not bode well for the future. I'm sure that in this instance (Tornado Cash) the developer being involved in more than the coding was a great relief to the authorities because that fact was what allowed the arrest to take place. But, in my opinion, they probably resent that he wrote it at all. I believe that authorities will continue to look for ways to scare developers away from building certain kinds of software, because it's in their interests to do so (from their point of view, the less people working on things that make their lives harder, the better). There's already precedent for trying to control "distribution", and I don't see how future attempts to control "development" can be avoided.

Now, which of those three points do you have an issue with? If you come back at me with some incomprehensible gibberish about how I'm "trying to twist the facts" I'm putting you on ignore.