Quote from: DukeOfEarl on June 17, 2011, 11:37:07 AM

There is no better way to kill an initiative than to marry it with a political idea that the masses find repugnant.

Repugnant or not doesn't really have to do with it. No matter what your political view is, someone is bound to find it repugnant.

IMO the main bitcoin site should be neutral from any political view, repugnant or not. It should be about technical issues, indifferent of the political affiliations of the users.

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Do you know what an open source project is? There is no organization behind bitcoin, it has no owners, no official representatives.

No other major open source project I know has any political affiliation, at least on their main site. For example, file sharing tools have the same problem. So they simply say to be about legal file sharing to rid themselves of the same troll discussions all the time.