@kaereste@colludingnode@stonecoldpat0 if the system is no longer of use for the misfits and criminals then it will have ceased to be of any value for anyone
@PaulRBerg@daveytea@davidboxenhorn you can see much of that in his writing. a good idea which could've been expressed in one page dragged out in the most annoying writing over hundreds of pages.
@phylaxsystems is the first of the horseman enabling this lawfare dystopia
Like geoblocking, that it can be done will make every lawyer insist it must be done, and then we have enshrined centralized block building always promising next version will reduce control but never do
@malekanoms agree with all of that but sociopolitical climate hasn't rewarded nuance in a while (and might not for the foreseeable future); and if only one side is willing to embrace nuance they will just get hit over the head by the populists.
@0xhalloc@koeppelmann@bermudabayzk it's a useless, actively harmful product. it's serves no purpose beyond perpetuating existing surveillance structures and giving unsuspecting users a false sense of security.
@LorenzoARK > Neutrality isn’t a product.
if that is your thesis then just leave ethereum alone. go shill corpo chains instead.
> if security doesn’t get meaningfully better.
you living under a rock? all of the big recent hacks have been off-chain infra getting owned.
@LorenzoARK@malekanoms This is such a mid take, you know what is better than rollbacks? staying relevant because people can trust the neutrality of the base layer.
There are no precedents for this, this is something new. I think we need to grow up, acknowledge the benefits and not bend the knee.
@terry_p_a_l@dhh@eydun if only gdpr offered any actual protections. the expansion of useless compliance theatre (age verification etc) voids any of the miniscule gains made by gdpr