Did that message come straight from Ells along with a metaphorical brown envelope full of ETN?

Now you've said it and the more I think about it, there is literally no reason to allow ASICs back on so soon then other than utter incompetence and mismanagement. If you say there's no deal then it must be the other reason: that one of their partners threatened to withdraw unless they fixed the difficulty swings and rather than employ something like Zawy or LWMA, they just knee-jerked and said yes to ASICs again.

Anyway thanks for that one-liner, once again completely ignoring my other questions. I saw a few other posts about censorship and realised that I'm not going to get a straight answer from you as much as I want to believe I could.