Censorship in Bitcoin?

A developer under the pseudonym 0xb10c discovered the facts of the exclusion of sanctioned transactions by one of the leading mining pools.

In his research, he looks at blocks mined by the ViaBTC, Foundry USA, and F2Pool pools. All of them excluded transactions with addresses on the U.S. Treasury Department's Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) sanctions list.

0xb10c found out that ViaBTC and Foundry USA pools excluded transactions for objective reasons, but later transfers from sub-sanctioned transactions were confirmed.

Regarding F2Pool, the researcher came to an unequivocal conclusion regarding the presence of a filtering mechanism.

F2Pool co-founder Chun Wang responded to the investigation and the outcry by posting the following tweet, which he soon deleted:

“Why are you surprised when I refuse to confirm the transactions of criminals, dictators and terrorists? I have every right not to confirm any transactions from Putin and Xi Jinping, right?”

This case is not Bitcoin censorship.

Why? Your thoughts in the comments...