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Sean3d ago

“Spam is well defined, is communication in bulk, which is not welcomed or desired by the receiver in digital format. […]if he pays a fee, it's not spam. That's nonsense. […]Filtering spam is censorship.” https://fountain.fm/episode/PwmpTcUU0skwr7VeC959

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Gary Woodfine3d ago

Could filtering be considered protecting free speech? A process of ensuring that communication channels are kept clean and clear for speech?

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Sean3d ago

Luckily bitcoin’s software is backwards compatible. I hope this nonsense gets cleared up soon enough. To answer your question; filtering anything pulls us further away from free speech — like.. who am I to decide what clean and clear looks like to the next person? @ef151c7a…fab69a8b makes a good point about the use of the word CSAM being used in correlation with the word SPAM, they both sound and look the same. One is the ultimate marketing play if you want to destroy an opposing idea.

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Pinguimdarelva⚡3d ago

GM 👀🇧🇷🤙

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Gary Woodfine3d ago

Yeah i get your point, . The problem is that most points can be argued in both way and communities often get lost in nuance and argue which side has the most correct take. You can get lost on point of what is and what isn’t spam from the perspective of every side. In my opinion, I believe in the most ruthless point is , if it’s not a financial transaction it’s spam . There is no need for a block to contain anything other than record financial value passing from one entity to another in the simplest possible.

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Sean3d ago

Sure, but I still believe that censorship is bad at any level, the knock on affect is always net negative. The on-chain/base layer is slow and expensive and lacks privacy—the layer 2 models are fixing those issues. Bitcoin as a settlement is always going to work but adding a form of censorship filtering mech won’t play out well for l2’s. If you introduce filtering at L1, you're not just blocking "spam" — you're creating a precedent where miners or node operators decide what's valid beyond consensus rules.

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