Greetings, @logos and welcome to the community,
If someone steals some ADA via a ransom attack and then stakes it, the authorities might come after the stake pool operator.
Something similar happened to an acquaintance of mine. He wrote a day trading bot which had unwittingly received funds that had touched an oligarchs account. The US government froze the assets for a short while until my acquaintance could be cleared. So it’s not too far of a jump for me to imagine the same thing could happen to an honest stake pool operator who has no say in the type of people that delegate to his pool.
I thought so too, but @HeptaSean argued the the other side of that in a different thread on the same subject.
While most of us find racism repugnant, I have learned that there are legitimate reasons why stake pool operators should be able to refuse delegators - even if just for personal reasons. Now I am starting to think that it shouldn’t matter if you don’t want to do business with someone for any reason as long as everyone has access to a variety of stake pools or can start one themselves. Others will disagree on principal but why would anyone fight over unlimited resources. Seems to me, the only reason to fight when resources are unlimited would be ideology. Personally, I am starting to find that the world is big enough for everybody to have their own ideology as long as we don’t try to force ours on another. Especially as resources become unlimited, I prefer to get what I need somewhere else if I am not wanted here.