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Calling a fee-paying, rule-valid transaction "spam" is not an engineering classification but an admission-control decision, and admission control is governance. Any system that decides which paying users may transact — by payload type, purpose, "standardness", or escalating penalties on disfavoured uses — has instituted a permission regime, acquired regulators who cannot say who they are or how they may be removed, and abandoned the one property that made it distinctive.

The remedy for scarce block space is not moral categories but arithmetic: scale the capacity, price the resource including its externalities, and let payer and miner settle it between them.