Its not a whitelist. Monetary use always needed its (consensus and mempool) rules and filters to protect it. Permissionless Bitcoin is ability to send Bitcoin to any Bitcoin address, not to send spam.
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Rules are fine. The dispute is who gets to define spam at consensus. If a spend pays the fee and obeys Bitcoin's existing validity rules, turning dislike of its payload into invalidity is a much bigger line than mempool policy.