It just feels like a ratchet that keeps getting tighter…tighter… If something doesn’t snap its hard to imagine what this place looks like in 10 years.

Everyone thinks they will be the benevolent dictator.

There will be many L2s. Liquid, ecash, ark, spark ect. If a user is paying someone in a different L2 then the transfer of value will between the two will be in lightning. If it’s in the same L2 such as liquid > liquid or a transaction within the same ecash/fedi mint then no lightning will be needed.

They have stated both goals. They aim to crack down on what they perceive to be either far left or far right protestors. The free Palestine protestors are certainly a huge target. Hate speech laws are already being used against the NSN. They claim they want to increase this even more. No doubt they also want to use this against left wing protestors. Anyone who has a radical ideology that upsets the happy power structures. Maybe everything is a psyop. But psyops or not, more government power, more laws and more restrictions on speech are never a good thing.

They are thinking about lightning as a L2 communication layer. As the common connective tissue between different scaling solutions rather than the direct point of end user intreatction and custody.

I am going to have to disagree. Evil really is a thing. You can chose not to live in fear of evil. You can know that love will triumph over evil. But evil is real.

Additionally they are looking to criminalise any form of “inciting hate” and are going to be loosening the laws around classifications of terrorist organisations with the stated goal of including a newly forming far right political party under the new definition.