You confuse survaillance with permission. If you do a bank transfer, you can click a button in your online banking account but the final decision for initiating the transfer is still done by a third party.
If it doesn't like the transfer, it won't go through. On a permissionless system you can still initiate the transaction whether you get prosecuted for the transaction or not is another question.
I don't. User johnarb also got into an argument with me last time around I tinkered in the crypt threads. Check my post history if you have the time, or no worries if you don't.
Surveillance and Permission/Censorship go together. E.g
There is a permission, because there is transparency and there is surveillance. Current era BTC propagandists are neither Bitcoiners, nor traders nor any positive attributes that inspired me into Bitcoin long time ago. Most folks nowadays are ponzi scam peddlers and stablecoin pushers in disguise using Bitcoin as the tool to propagate it.
Wait until Tether melts. Most of them will be back sucking to Elon, Saylor and Adam Back to bail them out and continued USDC/USDT printing to lure a Somalian farmer to stack sats so that the Petabyte miner in Seattle can pay his utility bills in fiat.