This. It's a mere assumption that setting a fee for data of any type is good enough. The pro spam advocates also fail to consider that it is the RIGHT of individual nodes to do whatever they want with their own computer, that rearranging or filtering your copy of transactions aggresses against absolutely no one, and that setting individual policies as a node is the ONLY thing that safeguards the network. The consensus rules for example are called consensus because of consent, not the decrees of some group of devs. There's a word for this latter paradigm: fiat. View quoted note →