We will need to check all valid use cases and be able to agree on all of them. This is nearly impossible task.
Another analogy is spam in email. Spam in email has not been fixed on protocol level (IMAP, SMTP, POP3).
It has been solved with filters. And that is different between freedom and censorship.
You are free to send email with any words in it, nothing is banned. But spam emails are filtered out.
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I'm not yet convinced. To bring back the free speech analogy, I would compare it to Bitcoin filters and spam in the following way:
- all words are allowed = all transactions that unlock existing UTXOs and create new UTXOs with the minimum set of operations are allowed. Notice how there is no moral judgment as long are the user is actually using words
- meaningless noise is not allowed = transactions embedding arbitrary data for purposes other than UTXOs transfer are filtered away. This means that, ideally, transactions that could transfer ownership of sats in a more parsimonious way should do so.