I'm not defending core, I'm just simply acknowledging that from a technical perspective core arguments are better since most of the people who support core are developers, whereas knots arguments tend to be emotionally focused about "CSAM", and "Spam", instead of discussing how they want to enable more control over their own nodes.

The three scenarios that play out.

1. Bitcoin Filters work good, and transactions can be Censored, and stopped.

2. Bitcoin filters don't work well, and malicious data transactions still get through.

3. Bitcoin is a Permissionless system where data, and monetary transactions have to compete for space in block via the fee market.

I support Fee Markets naturally pricing out malicious activity.