If Sony proactively communicated what they wanted to permission on their chain (eg no memecoins), would people have accepted that?

Was the bigger issue that memecoins were allowed to exist and then censored?

Sony has a history of wanting to have its cake and eat it too. By that I mean, they want to control the pipeline to such a degree that they end up disincentivizing people from using their products.
They lost the home video wars because their licensing agreements were too restrictive and took too much of a cut. They lost the format wars a decade later due to the same mentality (remember Minidisc?). While leadership has changed in the last 30 years, Sony's history of trying to both have something thats technically advanced and restrictive have always led to a short lived outcome. Same issue here, just a different wrapper.

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Why did they win the Blu-ray vs. HD-DVD battle? Genuine question - I don't know the answer to this.

I can talk about Sony's strides and blunders all day, but to focus on this era, Sony was triumphant with Bluray for 2 main reasons: 

1) Sony recognized that one of the main reasons Beta failed was because while they owned the technology, the studios owned all the content and thus had the leverage. Sony & the studios also couldn't agree on a licensing arrangement around Beta royalties, whereas VHS had none of the same baggage, so cheap and abundant won out over image quality. To rectify this, Sony purchased Columbia Tristar in 1989 and would use that acquisition to be less reliant on other studios to sell future tech (in this case, Blu-ray).

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Gina will give you the high level overview, but if you want a more in-depth take, you can read my response here:

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Gina will give you the high level overview, but if you want a more in-depth take, you can read my response here:
https://warpcast.com/adam-/0x36181df0