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Because government officials are supposed to be working for the people? Does your barber want to ban Bitcoin? The school-teacher? The doctor?

Nope. They either don't care or actually like it.

Also, "banning" things in America is close to impossible due to the populace intense distrust of the government. You can't even ban AR-15s, imagine thinking its possible to ban a piece of software running on a raspberry-pi.

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>Also, "banning" things in America is close to impossible due to the populace intense distrust of the government. You can't even ban AR-15s, imagine thinking its possible to ban a piece of software running on a raspberry-pi.

Things are banned all the time in the US, including pieces of software. See Tornado Cash for an extremely recent example.

and suicide!

Yeah, like abortion or drugs.

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