Whaa? Do you have any links or resources that goes into more detail on this? I'm curious.
This was quite a while ago and I'm going off memory, but I found this - https://bugs.gentoo.org/531634
He did so with the intention of blacklisting certain "spammers" (his words) which included SatoshiDICE which at the time was extremely popular. Very slippery slope imo.
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thank you for digging this up! This part of Bitcoin's history is close to being forgotten!
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