Bitcoin Hard Forks
The cluster centers on discussions about the possibility, process, and implications of hard forking Bitcoin to change rules, rollback transactions, or resolve disputes, with references to historical examples like Bitcoin Cash, SegWit, and Ethereum DAO.
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Somebody can fork bitcoin and change that aspect.
Sure it's a line of code but if you fork and change that line of code you need to find consensus on the network to accept your fork as the "true" Bitcoin. See Bitcoin cash for an example.
What you're suggesting is a fork, which would not be Bitcoin at that point.
Nothing, that's called a hard fork. It has happened (out of consensus) and probably will happen again.
the fact that you can't just fork bitcoin willy nilly, is a feature, not a bug.
It will be forked because they have history of forking when people "lose" funds.
Bitcoin devs do not have control of the network. Anyone can fork bitcoin.
I'm not sure what they mean there, but I'd guess they mean a hard fork. As with the Ethereum post-DAO fork, you don't have to accept it, but to the extent it seems legitimate, most of the value would go along.
They cannot roll it back. Anybody can create a hard fork, and nobody is forced to use that version. In fact, the version that was not rolled back still exists, and we are all free to use it if we wish!
This isn't true, given how frequently hard forks happen in crypto. This means that the code said one thing, but the community decided that it was the wrong thing and everyone moved on to the new fork.