This issue was already hashed during the Wikileaks issue and Satoshi recommended keeping Bitcoin away from it so Bitcoin could grow and mature into a more powerful tool.
It is extraordinarily unwise to make bitcoin such a highly visible target, at such an early stage in this project. There could be a lot of "collateral murder" in the bitcoin community while you make your principled stand.
Having read this thread, I've done a U-turn on my earlier view and agree. Lets protect and care for bitcoin until she leaves her nursery onto the economic killing fields.
Since Len Sassaman,
who may well have been Satoshi, was
likely covertly murdered therefore it would be in people's best interest to be a little more discrete and pragmatic.
I would never have reacted this way without the ban, that was out of line. I already knew Jeff thinks this way so I'm not massively surprised about how he reacted but I thought it was out of line.
Talking about it, using it, does NOT imply illegal activities. Silk Road itself is NOT illegal.
Why is it so difficult for people to
follow the first rule of Fight Club?