It’s become pretty apparent that the Knots stuff is mostly a combination of naïveté regarding the actual effectiveness of filters (they don’t work to stop spam, it’s mostly just virtue signaling/protesting how everything played out) and potentially even some coordinated attempt to cause a fork to separate the monetary ideologues from the base protocol. It benefits the state to create a situation where the minority of financially literate people fork themselves away from where Blackrock and retail will be, guaranteeing their irrelevance and dooming them to be the next bitcoin cash.