Plausible Deniability
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Nick Szabo· 2025-11-22 16:18
RT Vijay Selvam (@vijayselvam)Been asked for my Legal take on Core v30/Spam/Filters a few times. So here it is.Counterintuitively, filters could INCREASE legal risk for nodes by decreasing plausible deniability IMO. The State says: “If you already censor CSAM voluntarily, surely you can censor XYZ user/transaction when we tell you to.” When you show that you CAN censor via a discretionary filter policy you invite state capture of individual node policies - you show editorial capacity.No filtering = plausibl ...