True, a soft fork does not in itself change the permissionless nature, but the nature of this BIP introduces arbitrary, seemingly human initiated, chain splits that are not based on the validity of a transaction, but rather on what extra data was included as part of that transaction, or some unrelated transaction in the same block. No one’s opinion of right and wrong should have impact on my ability to settle a financial transaction on the #Bitcoin network, just as no one’s opinion of what I spend money on can stop me from handling a stack of cash (or gold) to someone to settle a transaction in person. I don’t need a governing body, or anyone else, to be able to do an in person exchange of value nor do I need someone else’s permission to transact in bitcoin today… and it should stay that way. Arbitrarily excluding blocks in the method described seems very likely to result in censorship. All useful tools, especially technological ones, can be used for both good and evil, but that’s not a reason to penalize the ones not doing the evil.