It's an important question. I'd like to see people engage with it in good faith.

From what I'm hearing, the pro-filtering argument is for allowing node runners to not store images, or other objectionable material, in their mempools. I'm fine with that. Arguments against choice have to meet a high bar for me to accept them and these technocratic arguments haven't risen to that level for me.

The argument for stopping at this point is that there would be no faster way to turn the public against bitcoin than by being able to say, accurately, that we're all willingly transmitting child pornography to each other.

If engaging in that transmission is optional, then culpability can be put on the particular node runners who are storing it, rather than the whole community/project/movement.