We absolutely must hold the line on permissionlessness.
The core reason for the entire cryptocurrency space is a peer-to-peer monetary system with no centralized intermediaries or censorship vectors.
Satoshi Nakamoto behaved as if he'd be treated like a criminal: fully-anonymous, no VC funding, no organization or foundation to attack, purely decentralized, open source code.
The cypherpunk movement promotes freedom through technology, regardless of what authorities may say.
THORChain is under fire for processing swaps no matter who they're from. No one other than the Maya Protocol is doing the same!
Privacy coins like Dash, Zcash, and Monero took plenty of heat, and although things are looking great now, we came far closer to losing sovereignty than we'd like.
If we let decentralized protocols to be bullied into setting a censorship precedent, or make it toxic to interact with permissionless protocols, then we lose to tyranny. Full stop.
We. Must. Hold. The. Line!