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Renaud on Nostr: "Filtering arbitrary data is censorship. It betrays Bitcoin's neutrality." It ...

"Filtering arbitrary data is censorship. It betrays Bitcoin's neutrality."

It doesn't. Every protocol is defined by what it refuses to carry. A voice codec dropping oversized packets is not silencing speech.

A monetary network that won't defend its scope doesn't stay neutral. It just lets whoever has the most resources define its scope instead.

New issue: why Bitcoin isn't a bulletin board, even when the bulletins are noble.
https://blockspaceweekly.substack.com/p/issue28-the-freedom-text-trap