Take a moment today to remember that Keonne Rodriguez turned himself into prison. Where heβll stay for the next 5 years. For writing open source privacy software.
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Been praying for him and family - blessings to all the freedom warriors.
Take a moment today to remember that Keonne Rodriguez turned himself into prison. Where heβll stay for the next 5 years. For writing open source privacy software.
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And pleaded guilty because the thug judge they swapped in at the 11th hour didnβt allow critical evidence and was going to give him 25 years. Being forced to plead guilty when you didnβt do it, but doing it anyway because they are going to hit you with maximum penalties is disgusting. And I canβt even imagine how demoralizing.
Yup. Super f-ed.
Thatβs not why he went to prison.
Wasnβt it because he was running the mixing service? Donβt get me wrong- itβs a mark of a tyrannical regime still and others have been put in jail for writing open source software, but his case is not about the software itself - at least that was my understanding
Samourai was a coinjoin service. Very different thing to a mixer.
They didnt take custody.
Thank the Catholic scumbags who decided to throw him in the slammer, and prevented him and Bill from ensuring they have evidence to prove they didn't run an unlawful operation.
This is why religion must not be used. Ross suffered the same, because of Catholic nonsense.
GET OUT OF HER, MY PEOPLE!
Trump is going to give him a pardon.
You still have faith in politicians. How quaint.
I am not very optimist on that. But I hope you are right!
Hope is better than nothing.
Trump picked his own deep state advisors - but there are a couple good ones left. About 3/1000 in DC.
Good time exists, he won't have to do the whole 5.
Doesnβt matter. No one should spend a single day in jail for building a tool that someone, somewhere used for an illegal purpose.
It's not jail, you don't even understand the definition of basic things.
It's prison.
I never said that they should spend time incarcerated, why are you inventing an argument here?
The posts of him celebrating early Christmas with his family and Shia wife watching him walk in to prison were rough.
Letβs work on getting another pardon done during this administration.
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Writing ' PRIVACY ' software and still showing your face out and about in public? Huh!
He's been writing ' PRIVACY ' software and all these while been showing his face out and about in public? Huh.
And? Whatβs your point?
Letβs fight for freedom fir our own soldiers π«‘π§‘π½
He will stay in prison for just writing open source code, while many crypto scammers are completely free without facing any kind of legal issues. This world is insane!
No. He:s not in prison for writting software.
They accused him of something else and he plead guilty.
Any idea what else they accused him of?
He's in prison for talking shit. The documents are full of quotes of his Twitter posts, forum posts, telegram chats, whatever, where he explicitly said his business is helping criminals, or money laundering, or inviting exchange thieves to use his mixer...
AM NOT saying this is morally enough to jail him. A lot of this was obvious joking. But it is 100% talking shit and it gave the Feds what they needed on a silver platter to establish "intent" and it was used against him, whether he held funds or not.
I hope he gets his pardon though.
Take a moment to reflect on what the case of Keonne Rodriguez reveals.
Creating open-source software to protect privacy should never be a crime.
And yet, this man is now deprived of his freedom for defending a fundamental right.
This situation exposes a disturbing reality: when privacy becomes inconvenient, it becomes a target.
Under the guise of security, governments seek to tighten their control over citizens at the expense of our freedoms.
Defending privacy is not about hiding crimes, it is about protecting our rights.
Silencing those who build digital privacy tools puts everyone at risk.
Spread the word.
Privacy is not a luxury, it is a right.
Keonne Rodriguez must be freed.
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History will remember this as a crime against freedom, not justice. Writing code is not violence. Punishing it is fear.