binance going with the classic "we were just moving fast and breaking things!" defense

via https://nytimes.com/2023/04/26/technology/binance-crypto-crackdown.html

Binance Faces Mounting Pressure as U.S. Crypto Crackdown Intensifies

The scrutiny on Binance, the giant cryptocurrency exchange, has sent new tremors through a market that is still bruised by the implosion of FTX.

The New York Times
[on trial for smashing up a store]
your honor, i was just seeing myself as a tech company. i break things.

Bad Advice: That's a great way for the state to pay for your psychiatric care.

Of course, psychiatric care for tech companies should be invented.

@molly0xfff Smash up one store, you're a hoodlum. Smash up 100 stores, you're a disruptor!
@molly0xfff You missed the part about moving fast, can't let the cops catch you
@cameron @molly0xfff
I feel it's less about getting caught and more about breaking many things so fast before a "user" even reports one of them

On a totally tangential note, when #russians smash up a store, or a (currently) neighbouring country, they follow the Pottery Barn Doctrine: "You break it, you own it".

Or at least they die trying.

@molly0xfff

@molly0xfff Just be sure you are doing it quickly
@molly0xfff ah, your honor, my client did not “run from the police”, they were merely “moving fast”
@molly0xfff move fast and break things. Or listen to the talk #zuckerberg gave at #Harvard #CS50 class years ago where he said in #tech it’s better to ask forgiveness than to ask permission.
@molly0xfff Bulls exit china shops, cite "hostile regulatory environment".