Yeah, I’m not talking about the code. I’m talking about the ethos. You want to libel people with a list, no one can stop you. But that should be instant reputational suicide. 

And this should be well known and part of the ethos (the code, In a different sense of that word.) 

I wouldn’t need to spam the protocol with those bots because in trying to destroy its free speech ethos (by essentially trying to excommunicate or “deplatform” others for their views) he would excommunicate himself. 

You can build whatever tools you like to help on the spam front (and you should!), but I’m going to advocate for an ethos in the spirit of free speech, which is the free expression of ideas. 

It’s like Karl Popper’s paradox of tolerance: the only thing we can’t tolerate is intolerance because that’s the end to tolerance.