American actor Ben McKenzie recently travelled to Washington to meet with several parliamentarians to lobby senators against the CLARITY Bill. The bill is considered to be one of the most current concerns of the United States Congress regarding the encryption market structure bill, with the core objective of establishing a clearer regulatory framework for digital assets.
Go to Congress to oppose the bill.
According to journalist Eleanor Terrett, McKenzie contacted members of Parliament on Tuesday to try to convince them to veto the legislation. The report showed that he had focused his opposition on the issue of investor protection rather than advocating a total ban on digital assets.
The CLARITY Bill, if advanced, would affect the way in which the United States divides and regulates the market structure of encrypted assets, and thus receive high attention at both industry and policy levels.
From actor to encrypted critic
McKenzie is famous for the opera Orange County Boys. In recent years, he has gradually become one of the more active encrypted critics of Hollywood.
He claims that he began to focus on the industry around 2020 because of doubts about the celebrity encryption project and the rapid influx of money into the market. Since then, he has been involved in the production of the documentary " Everyone Is Lying to You for Money ", with content focused on industry critics, proletariats lost on encryption platforms, and Sam Bankman-Fried, former CEO of FTX.
The debate is still in the regulatory direction.
McKenzie also mentioned that he had interviewed Sam Bankman-Fried before the FTX crash and used it to question the notion of “code credibility”. He has also long been critical of TTC.
Despite McKenzie ' s continued criticism of the encryption industry, his public statement focused on strengthening regulation and consumer protection. In his documentary, he highlighted victims of failed platforms such as Celsius and argued that high speculative marketing had a greater impact on young men.
However, this position has also been countered by industry. In April this year, Ripple’s Chief Justice Stuart Alderotey criticized the documentary as a continuation of old narratives of digital assets and as a generalization of the whole industry.
Alderotey stated at the time that there was a large number of common United States users actually using digital asset tools, including income supplementation, business operations and access to new financial opportunities. The controversy surrounding the CLARITY Bill also reflects the fact that the United States encryption regulatory discussions are still slashing between consumer protection and industry development.