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If the state says something is illegal, is it ever moral to ignore their law and do it anyhow?

Obviously. Like gun restrictions.

I think we all agree that bitcoin is a massive benefit to humanity and a key to reducing suffering in the world. So, if a government says running a bitcoin node is illegal because there is data they deem illegal stored on it, isn’t it moral for those citizens to just ignore that and to continue to run a bitcoin node? Or should we all stop running those nodes because a bad actor simply included something “illegal” and we don’t want to violate a law?

allowing data to be stored on chain is not a benefit to humanity

Depends on how much time and money you have to fight a prosecution and would you be able to win?

Was something broken before they changed the op_return? I guess my question is, why fix what wasn't broken? Bitcoin was doing fine before, no?