Recommendation for pausing signing by listed notaries for abusing Filecoin Plus

[raghavrmadya]

Issue Description

Based on the signing behavior on the following application , the notaries have ignored flags raised by other notaries and are being investigated for abusing DC.

The list is as follows:

AthSmith BobbyChoii Casey-PG Meibuy Suyanj TakiChain

Impact

Investigation can result in the removal of the aforementioned notaries

Proposed Solution(s)

Proposed Timeline

Discussion on June 27th T&T WG call. The decision announced on June 30th 2023 at 5:01 PM EST

Technical dependencies

Removal from the main multi-sig

[cryptowhizzard]

Do you not realize the significance of the notary role and retrievals? If someone actually stored child pornography on any of these platforms and received datacap for it, it poses a serious issue for everyone involved in this field. The aforementioned notaries have failed to fulfill their responsibilities adequately, and I strongly recommend their removal as suggested in the recommendation.

@herrehesse Why are you talking about illegal things? Can you read everything on filecoin? If the other clients are storing child pornography, can you check them?

Can you guarantee which notary's signature all will be retrievable? Please list them!

Are you a notary? Have you ever worked as a notary? If not, please stop your speech and stop attacking the notaries.

You've thrown the entire fil+ community into chaos. I call on the community to stop your speech.

What a nonsense. Just because you don’t like what someone is saying does not mean it is not valid.

[The-Wayvy]

Let's gradually decrease the FIL+ multiplier, say, over 5 years, until it's gone.

It's not right for block rewards to be determined by a bureaucracy.

Satoshi would be horrified.

[cryptowhizzard]

So, where are we with this proposal?

I stumbled today on https://github.com/filecoin-project/filecoin-plus-large-datasets/issues/1584

It seems the situation is more then clear here and we need to take action please.