you're going to relay CSAM anyway, it will just be spammed in addresses and you'll find out in a few confirmations when it is too late to do anything about it. 

freedom is ugly, Bitcoin is ugly, people are ugly. 

But you know what is beautiful? The truth. 

standardcrypto

bitcoin

Gmax's theocratic populist sex prohibition analogy for filters

Scoresby

> I'm not sure I even see why there is an on-going argument

I don't think there is an ongoing argument anymore, it's just a bullshit slinging match, primarily from the Core side.

Calling people who don't want to relay CSAM theocratic authoritarians and making out that filters are a slippery slope towards censorship by denying the distinction between monetary and non-monetary transactions is just nakedly polluting the debate with misinformation. 

Obviously you cannot deterministically distinguish spam from non-spam, but it doesn't have to be deterministic, nobody is arguing for that. 

And either running knots is a threat to the network or bitcoin is not trivially vulnerable to state (even legitimately theocratic) MONETARY censorship. Which is it?