I'm not sure insisting on the free speech analogy is the correct approach to be honest. Speech is general in content: I can arrange words in such a way so as to express whatever meaning I want. Bitcoin is, in principle, not general in the kinds of transactions that are to be ideally allowed on its network. Let's imagine for a moment a world where Bitcoin only allows P2WPKH outputs and absolutely nothing else. Let's imagine this is agreed upon by all holders such that all other outputs are transferred to P2WPKH ones. Would this be problematic for Bitcoin as money?

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BitcoinIsFuture 3 months ago
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.