I dont understand why some people are so against mixers.1
Some people..? Or practically, the government or the SEC? The people I assume they don't like Bitcoin mixers are only those who are not Bitcoiners. I can undoubtedly say that more than 80% of Bitcoiners love mixers, although some of them might not have used them.
Obviously, the government is the only person who is greatly opposed to Bitcoin mixers.
Not all mixers are the same, not all of them are connected with criminals or made only to laundry dirty money.2
Yeah, all mixers are never the same, but they run the same service, which is Bitcoin mixing. There are more than 10 existing mixers, and apart from the ones that have been discontinued and short down by the government, you cannot actually tell if the rest have been used in some minor cases for mixing stolen coins. I am not practically saying all have been used for cases of money laundering. I still concur with what you said, but even if some hackers have mixed a stolen coin in a particular mixer, the mixer will not stop the mixing process of such coins.
Most of the time, some dirty (criminal) money passes through the bank and can still go undetected; that's how it could also be with the mixers. For one reason I know, the government is angry because they cannot apply sensor on mixers anyhow they like, and mixers could never make that sensory process possible for the government because their service is to provide privacy.
People forgot what cryptocurrency was made for in the beginning. People forgot about anonymity. I am using mixers not to clean my crypto, but because I dont like full transparency, I dont like to be monitored, I feel uncomfortable when there is always someone behind my back watching how I spend. That is I am really happy that we have mixers representatives finally on the forum.
The government wants transparency and not privacy; they are angry that they can't have all the information they want about investors crypto assets.They are also angry because some criminal activity goes on freely, and that's true, but sometimes there is also some fiat criminal activity that goes on freely too even in the bank.
Crypto, Bitcoin, and mixers are not the only tools used for illegal money cleaning.