RT Nick Szabo (@NickSzabo4)It can be slowed down, and if it is not slowed down in healthy ways by core, it will be slowed down in less healthy ways by other people. Whichever way, it will be slowed down and the legal attacks combatted. Bitcoin as a storage service for illegal content would severely damage its financial functionality in the long run. ...

RT Nick Szabo (@NickSzabo4)Far greater moral and legal disputes will arise over OP_RETURN when it is carrying far more arbitrary unmoderatable content rather than predominantly just unmoderatable financial transactions. You get yourself mixed up with the coming flood of illegal content at your peril (and perhaps the rest of ours' peril, too, but since you are using OP_RETURN you are particularly in the firing line). ...

RT Nick Szabo (@NickSzabo4)@gofreesamourai @LukeDashjr @adam3us If your functionality gets mixed up with illegal content you are screwed. ...

RT Nick Szabo (@NickSzabo4)@crypt0e @callebtc What then happens when full node operators become informed about illegal content on the blockchain? They then have knowledge and this particular precedent doesn't protect them. ...

RT Allum Bokhari (@AllumBokhari)The act bans "illegal content," which includes hate speech.Companies can be fined 10 percent of their global turnover for non-compliance.That's even harsher than the EU Digital Services Act, recently condemned by the U.S. State Department.https://t.co/3htPbDDmO7 ...