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I think he's commenting on Aaron's apparent moral relativism. Bitcoin being censorship resistant is not a excuse to turn a blind eye to criminal activity. Bitcoin is censorship resistant *for monetary transactions* i.e. ledger entries for value transfer via satoshi balance updates. Some core devs have decided this should also apply to any arbitrary data in op_return, including possibly illegal images and videos. Aaron is using the principal that monetary transactions should not be censorable to excuse people "doing very bad things", effectively saying "sorry, nothing we can do about it." Meanwhile core is removing an option node runners can use to curate their own mempools. This is *not* censorship any more than filtering email spam, or muting people on social media, or any other curation at an individual user level. As much as core would like "the mempool" to be a uniform global feed of unmined transactions, there are only individual mempools managed by individual node operators. As such curation is fair game, and censorship resistance is preserved because filtering op_return doesn't filter monetary transactions. Even if they do (as has been pointed out many many times) filters can be routed around.