The debate is I don’t want to be forces to relay or store spam on my mempool.
You will not gaslight me or anyone else into making life easier for you and your spammer friends
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The response to that, is that no one is saying you aren't allowed to do whatever you want with your own software, you are making a point no one is disagreeing with.
The next step to this is, does this have any impact on the network? And the answer is no, and if you want to actually change network behavior you need a change in consensus to do that.
No one was trying to remove the users ability to configure their node to filter out txns with an OP_RETURN exceeding a certain size?
No one is trying to remove filters from the default of Core?
No one is campaigning against filters saying they don’t work and trying to expand the amount of data that can be stored in OP_RETURN so spammers can save money and can more easily put their spam on the chain?
Ok bro, go gaslight someone else
No. Its Free Open Source Software, you can run your own fork and do whatever you want.
Here is GMax explaining this exact point on reddit.
Stop thinking like a serf and just do whatever you want in bitcoin.