My main gripe with your angle and others who take up a similar one is, "punished just for writing code...". I wish it WERE true that they "just wrote code". more (normal-er) people would be on board with the outrage IF they "just wrote code". Next time someone gets unfairly prosecuted like this, I hope they will have "just written code".
Someone seeing the "they just wrote code" message, and then digging deeper and finding out they "also made $6M" makes whoever said "they just wrote code" seem disingenuous, not credible, and like they might be papering over other important details as well. Keep your credibility up in the eyes of onlookers by telling the whole story. It becomes easier to tell the whole story when there isn't $6M hiding in the plot.
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"Hiding in the plot"? Give me a break. I've mentioned the $6.3 m in fees six different times between Twitter & Nostr just today. The figure is also mentioned on the petition. Not to mention, you are replying in a thread where I literally clipped and highlighted Keonne talking about their fees. Nobody is hiding anything. Not to mention Average Joe earning $50k/year is doing pretty well compared to Samourai who earned $6.3m in fees over 10-years and had 20 people employed at the time of the arrests, they weren't even making $50k/yr.
Proton AG had $97.5 million in revenue last year.
Those criminals!
Lock them up.
i don't agree with or support any of this prosecution, i hope you realize (or any prosecution in the current non-private legal system, for that matter...)
That's fine and good to hear.
What do you think they were falsely accused of, then. If it wasn't for writing code?
all accusations are "false" because the legal system is involuntary.
but to answer your question: were they not also running and providing a service, beyond merely authoring code?
Is running and providing a service to others illegal?
by "illegal", do you mean the State will put you in jail for it? definitionally, yes, in this case.
but now we're allowing that they didn't "just write code", I notice. which was my original point.
