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Did the US Treasury censor code or illegal actions?

While the US government needs to clarify exactly what it was doing, in the Tornado Cash case the onus is on the cryptocurrency community to show they can abide by money-laundering law rather than appear to intentionally evade it.

OSI Policy Staff Opinion: https://blog.opensource.org/did-the-us-treasury-censor-code-or-illegal-actions-tornado-cash/