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@ Leo Wandersleb
2025-06-11 07:48:56
"censorship" is being thrown around a lot but me not listening to your gibberish isn't censorship. In fact no single entity - node or person - can censor anybody by the definition of the term. Only an absolute power can censor within the reach of it's power. China can censor within China and Bitcoin node operators can censor within Bitcoin. Both require coordination though. If "China" can't convince its state employees to enforce censorship, it won't work and if the node operators don't agree it won't work neither.
Actually the analogy works even for the case where the power gets challenged.
If a small province of China decides not to censor some topic, the state could send in troops and coerce them to avoid China from falling apart.
If some miners decide to not censor something a super majority decided to censor on the consensus level, these minority miners can end up on a minority fork.