On Tuesday a Dutch court sentenced the programmer Alexey Pertsev to five years in prison. The court found him guilty of money laundering because the "Tornado Cash" software he developed enables criminals to carry out completely anonymous and untraceable crypto transactions (so-called "crypto mixer")
So they throw vendors of knives in jail too?
No, but they throw vendors of screwdrivers in jail too.
How is that a privacy tool?
I think you meant vendors of safes.
Same idea