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 Literally every Bitcoin node has done so since Satoshi's time 
 Hide behind that Luke, if it makes you feel better. Filter/censor, spuds/potatoes. Start down that road and slide into conformity 
 as long as every txn does fit in the next block then whoever mines it has to select which txns to include and which to leave out i.e filter/censor/etc.

Some miners filter to maximize total block reward, and others filter to maximize the number of financial/economic txns in the block.

Who is anyone to tell someone else how to construct their block? 
 Shall we decide by social credit score? Maybe by skin colour? Perhaps we can "filter" any tx that supports Russia? 

Money should not be a weapon 
 Whoever mines the block can include or exclude any txn they want. They are not morally obligated to add any one txn. No one is entitled to block space other than whoever mines the next block. Best you can do is economically incentivize whoever mined the block to sell you block space. 

Unless you have a moral argument (necessarily rooted in religion/God) as to why what OCEAN is doing is wrong, then all you have is your opinion on what is right and wrong. Your opinion is not any more valid that Luke’s or anyone else’s opinion.

A pastry baker that refused to bake a wedding cake for a homosexual couple because it goes against their believes is not ‘weaponizing’ desserts. That is absurd. Forcing or pressuring said baker to bake the cake is what is wrong not the opposite. 

Same deal here. Find another miner, you’re not entitled to other people’s services