Can you imagine if Walmart started saying every customer has to show the cashier their bank statement first so the cashier can see where their money is coming from? The result would be outrage as well as a huge hit to Walmart's profits. But for some reason this community, despite being founded on the principles of self ownership and no third party control, are fine with this exact scenario, and continue to use and support exchanges which are openly spying on you. It is mind boggling.
There is a difference. It is the way this community thinks.
They see Walmart as a store they pay at for groceries. And
they see Bitcoin and Centralized Exchanges as a way to get rich. Here is where the discrepancy comes from. They would not share personal information with Walmart because Walmart is the one getting paid by them. You do not purchase an apple to sell it ten fold the next day. But in their mind, Binance does offer you exactly this. Buy AppleRocketshipMaster3000Coin today and tomorrow you may be a millionaire or continue to be broke.
These were exactly my thoughts as well. The ones that simply comply, are the ones that see Bitcoin as simply an investment like any other. I mean it depends how we define 'this community', of course. Personally, I don't consider myself in the 'same community' as the people who only see Bitcoin as a way to get rich and don't even understand the core principles.
I do get that the loudest voices and probably also largest group of people falls into that category though,
but these people are no cypherpunks.
It's not possible for a cypherpunk to simply accept all those spying measures o_e_l_e_o described; all of us would react like the exemplary Walmart customer who would outrage if he had to prove fund origins when grocery shopping.