1/ Despite a memo released by the DOJ earlier this month, federal prosecutors want to imprison Roman Storm for 45 years for writing open-source code. @matthuang and I provide details in a new post linked below.

RT @johnloeber: Reading about Javier Milei — paragraphs like this should be internalized by every public policymaker in the west https://t.….

RT @JoshuaSteinman: Tommy has fought for school choice for over a decade. Quietly, behind the scenes. It has surely been a team effort, an….

RT @jenn_rosenthal: This interview w/ @rstormsf is a *must watch* & really underscores the value of reporter/soutlets with subject matter e….

RT @JBSDC: “Who is the crypto user?”. This was the question we have been grappling with recently, culminating in our release today of the f….

RT @JoshuaSteinman: One thing I learned from my four years in the White House is that good judgement, communication skills, and a sense of….

RT @BoHines: Typewriters rejoice. Rotary phones stand in solidarity.

RT @DavidMMcintosh: Club for Growth supports Senator Lummis's excellent crypto tax provision-including a de minimis exemption from capital….

RT @BecketAdams: Imagine thinking this is a criticism.

RT @MayMailman: Amazing. Justice Barrett goes straight after Justice Jackson’s inability to do law. Jackson wants to tell the entire execut….

RT @seanmdav: BREAKING: In a 6-3 ruling, the Supreme Court has effectively nuked the universal injunctions used by rogue district court jud….

Amen.

RT @PatrickRuffini: Socialism is the ideology of those who have failed to monetize their advanced degrees.

RT @ViktorBunin: Last political post for a bit: it's infuriating when Americans completely discount the perspectives of people that have li….

RT @JoshuaSteinman: The “First Amendment for Code” is the First Amendment.

Who's the authoritarian now?.

3/ If prosecutors want to dramatically change how we think about criminal liability under American law, the place to do it is *Congress,* not the courts. In the meantime, we urge a return to common sense, due process, and fairness.

2/ The stakes in the Storm case are high: an unfair result could chill not just software development and innovation in crypto and fintech, but have ripple effects across open source and AI development too.

1/ Last week, Paradigm filed an amicus brief in United States v. Roman Storm, a case that could dictate the future of software development in the United States.

RT @SenTomCotton: Today @SecDef confirmed that Iran’s terrorist regime is actively working towards a nuclear weapon. For the sake of our….

RT @caitlinxyz: 1/ When we led Privy’s Series A in 2023, one thing came up again and again: customers didn’t just love the product – they l….