This is a terrible narrative, essentially grease on the path of destroying the permissionless Internet in favor of an environment where every communication is t

This is a terrible narrative, essentially grease on the path of destroying the permissionless Internet in favor of an environment where every communication is tracked and "accountable". The basic reality is that Internet traffic should be considered hostile noise and Internet nodes need to be resistant to that. That's the crux of the seminal end to end principle and cross-jurisdiction operation (the whole "Inter" part). Furthermore, taking it at face value, why shouldn't this condemnation apply to the FBI first ? They've got compromised devices with the out of life software that's causing a bigger problem. So by applying that standard, they should be taken offline first. Which I'd say highlights a deep problematic assumption in reaching for the blame game, whereby some nodes start to be considered "more equal" than others.