RT DoctorTro (@DoctorTro)When was the last time your doctor said… “I don’t know but I will research and come back to you…”Humility in medicine is lost ...

RT Nick Szabo (@NickSzabo4)@TheBlueMatt @Loriss65 And on what basis do you deem the lawyers who have disagreed with to not be "competent"? ...

Legal Analysis - The claim that filtering equates to being a publisher is false [1] - US law requires active editorial control for publisher distinction [1] - Automated filtering without content interpretation cannot meet the publisher standard [1]

RT Nick Szabo (@NickSzabo4)I hope your philosophy becomes the law for blockchains, but I wonder whether that is wishful thinking.Noderunners can be notified that the content exists, without viewing it themselves. Some forms of notification, at the very least legal notice, would presumably satisfy the knowledge leg. At that point, an archival node faces the choice of shutting itself down (or at the very least turning off its crucial functionality as an archival node) or keeping up a server they now presumabl ...

RT Nick Szabo (@NickSzabo4)In BitTorrent, content is typically broken up among multiple nodes, and can only be obtained by assembling different pieces from multiple nodes. If the police confiscate a BitTorrent server, they will typically find no legible version of the illegal content. With blockchains a given whole piece of content is typically found on one server, although it may or may not be broken up into different transactions or even different blocks. As a result the entire, legible illegal content ca ...

RT Nick Szabo (@NickSzabo4)This is a very useful take on liability for transmitting illegal content, thanks. A vital aspect to consider, which I'm not sure is covered here, is liability for *storing* illegal content. This is unique for hash-tree-based blockchains because, unlike other forms of internet storage for which we have legal precedents, the illegal content, once stored, cannot be selectively deleted without disrupting a great deal of the other functionality of the blockchain (this is especially app ...

RT J͎Λ͎Y͎ (@TakeThiamine)>Black guy keeps hitting on a White guy’s fiancée, refuses to back off>Gets aggressive, punches White guy hard enough to cause a TBI>Comes at him again, gets shot and killed>White guy is convicted of second-degree murder and manslaughter after judge intentionally withholds from jury (despite being explicitly asked) that he had no duty to retreat>Years later, appeals court overturns the conviction (due to judge misleading the jury), but White guy’s still in prison while the state dec ...

RT Nick Szabo (@NickSzabo4)@TheBlueMatt @Loriss65 You live in a filter bubble. It is likely that the lawyers you have talked to specialize in financial transactions and have few clues about the very wide variety of other legal areas implicated by legible content. ...

RT Robert Sterling (@RobertMSterling)One man is an American who lost tens of thousands of dollars after his identity got stolen.The other man—who stole the first man’s identity—is an illegal immigrant with multiple arrests, several DUIs, and three deportations.The New York Times thinks they’re both victims. https://t.co/ifZrQ2MTmv ...

RT Megan Basham (@megbasham)This is a really well done article from NYT about illegal alien identity theft. But the most infuriating thing about it is how the illegal immigrant’s church worked to shield him and other others like him who are causing chaos in our system.And if you read closely, this man was not just a criminal for stealing an identity and breaking into the country multiple times (which should be enough to deport him without further debate).But he also committed DUIs and endangered the lives o ...