I think the knots people have been whipped up into a moral panic about CSAM on the chain, and there is enough topical overlap here for it to spiral into a towering Jesus frenzy crusade that all of Core is compromised.

The concerns are valid enough, though the legal angle is an odd one for Bitcoiners, even if the ethics isn't. The issue is that their proposed solution in BIP-110 fails to solve the issue but does create more problems. You can still create problematic spam, including of abusive content, with BIP-1...