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Transactions from your Bitcoin wallet can be worked out with a pen and paper, and then passed onto others by hand, entered into their Bitcoin node by typing in what's written down. By advocating banning Bitcoin, you just banned Free Speech.

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I raise you DeCSS - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DeCSS

US federal courts haven't interpreted it that way, and the precedent you cited isn't applicable. Financial transactions with sanctioned entities aren't entitled to First Amendment protections. The technical means are entirely irrelevant, regardless of whether the transaction is performed with paper or on a computer.

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