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No group of individuals can be trusted more than the individual. Groups of individuals who claim the right to enforce their will on other individuals by means of violence (e.g. governments) can be trusted least of all.
The US and its allies did that damage to themselves by doing the things detailed in Snowden's leaks. Snowden is not a traitor because he swore an oath to protect and defend the constitution, and he did just that by leaking. If anyone is a traitor, it's the people who gave and followed unconstitutional orders.
I think you lost all credibility when you made that tweet. If you want to regain it, you should be completely transparent about which sites you have taken any specific ranking action regarding, and why. This should be relatively easy to do, as you say you take action very rarely.
32 Ether or mining equipment is nothing compared to what you need to have any real influence over fiat money.
Your links contradicts your statement. It's absolutely true that there is no designated class of slashers. Who do you think designates slashers?
Anyone can be a slasher, just as anyone can be a staker (as long as you have 32 Ether).
> If a group of validators don't agree with your particular arrangement of transactions in the block, they can engineer a "social fork" that slashes your stake.
Why would I want to be on their fork? They can have their censored fork, but they can't do anything to anymore who doesn't want to be a part of it.
If they try that Ethereum will fork and I (and everyone I have any interest in interacting with) will be on the non-censored fork.
With the old system, miners could try to sabotage our fork if most hashing power were to be on the censored fork. With this update, that would not be possible as the censors would lose their money on the non-censored fork and therefore be unable to stake. The relative power of the forks no longer matter as they cannot attack each other anymore.
Ethereum is becoming more decentralized and permissionless as a result of this change.
You don't recognise their actions and let them fork of into a useless chain. This happens automatically, just as when a miner would mine an invalid block.
> edit: for an example. you get hacked and lose $100M. You say fuck it, submit a slasher report that says it wasn't a valid transaction. you offer enough money to get x% of validators to agree with you.
That's not what slashing is supposed to be used for, but if that situation happened again, Ethereum would fork again, just as last time when Ethereum classic didn't agree to freeze the Ether from the DAO hack. PoS makes it a little easier to fork (which is good imo), but doesn't change anything fundamental. Everyone still needs to be in complete agreement about the rules and history for Ethereum to work.