Re: The situation with Ukraine and the accounts that supported the war.
Censorship is the story behind the story here.
Can't agree with you man. After few rockets landed near me, I understood that sometimes censorship is for good.
Do you apply the same principle to Putin’s censorship, if he believes he has a duty to Russia to win a war?
(Sure, I myself love censorship—just love it!—when I am the one doing the censoring. Funny how that works.)
The important question here, and the only one that I am interested in debating on this thread: Do you advocate that people who express pro-Russian (or even non-anti-Russian) opinions should be banned from the Bitcoin Forum, as demanded by OP here?
Sorry, but with your blind spot you dissapointed me 
Back atcha. What is your blind spot, when you are going around attacking Greenwald and me with anti-Russian rants—on threads where Russia was not even mentioned?
I also think that there should be no censorship on this forum.
Personally, I argued a lot with pro-Russian trolls in the Politics section [...]
Personally, I argued a lot with pro-Russian trolls in the Politics section [...]
Censorship is the story behind the story here. I am glad that the Bitcoin Forum, and especially theymos, have a strong tradition of supporting the freedom of speech.
[...excerpts of articles by a journalist whom I highly respect, Glenn Greenwald
<Something seems missing here, but who cares. Snip unhinged rant from the depths of war psychosis.>
No reason to waste my time writing a reply to this garbage, when I can simply quote myself from another thread where johhnyUA made a totally off-topic attack on Greenwald and me.
For the record: I do not agree with Greenwald about everything; to the contrary. I am independent, but I lean pretty far to the right. I was pro-Greenwald years before Greenwald suddenly became popular on the right—back when speaking favourably of Greenwald could get me treated as having cooties in some circles, due to his lifestyle. Well, I am independent; I did not need Tucker Carlson’s stamp of approval to form my opinion of Greenwald. I simply recognized that Greenwald is a straight shooter on some issues of overwhelming importance.
Hereto off-topic, but relevant to your post: American warmongering. I noticed that at least twelve years ago, Greenwald dared to criticize the sacrosanct Obama administration for continuing and worsening some Bush war policies. The mainstream “antiwar” American left suddenly shut up and toed the line, when the U.S. president was changed from (R) to (D). Greenwald called them out for it: He is honestly, consistently opposed to America’s wrecking of other nations. I highly respect that—as, of course, I also respect his stances on privacy and on the freedom of speech.
Was Greenwald a “Putin whore” for opposing American policies in the Middle East? If not, why is he one now, simply for applying the same principles to the American security state’s years-long belligerent policies towards Russia? You brand him a “Putin whore” because he is not a hypocrite, and he does not change his principles according to popularity or political convenience!
The over-the-top way that you are attacking Greenwald, Assange, and (in multiple threads) me, I would suggest that you are an “American whore” if I wished to descend to your level of discourse—or if I wished to insult actual working whores, some of whom are good Bitcoiners. I wish neither, so I will simply point out that your argument amounts to hating anyone who does not blindly hate Russia.
Hereto off-topic, but relevant to your post: American warmongering. I noticed that at least twelve years ago, Greenwald dared to criticize the sacrosanct Obama administration for continuing and worsening some Bush war policies. The mainstream “antiwar” American left suddenly shut up and toed the line, when the U.S. president was changed from (R) to (D). Greenwald called them out for it: He is honestly, consistently opposed to America’s wrecking of other nations. I highly respect that—as, of course, I also respect his stances on privacy and on the freedom of speech.
Was Greenwald a “Putin whore” for opposing American policies in the Middle East? If not, why is he one now, simply for applying the same principles to the American security state’s years-long belligerent policies towards Russia? You brand him a “Putin whore” because he is not a hypocrite, and he does not change his principles according to popularity or political convenience!
The over-the-top way that you are attacking Greenwald, Assange, and (in multiple threads) me, I would suggest that you are an “American whore” if I wished to descend to your level of discourse—or if I wished to insult actual working whores, some of whom are good Bitcoiners. I wish neither, so I will simply point out that your argument amounts to hating anyone who does not blindly hate Russia.
1miau, I repeat to you the same question as I put to johhnyUA: Do you advocate that people who express pro-Russian (or even non-anti-Russian) opinions should be banned from the Bitcoin Forum, as demanded by OP here?
I did NOT come here to debate the Russia question. Are you even aware that this is in the Meta forum, not Politics & Society? I entered this thread because on free-speech grounds, I am outraged at a Meta thread demanding bans of users for their political opinions. Do you agree with OP’s demand for an “eternal ban” of his political blacklist?
@cryptomaxsun, why will you not add me to your censorship target list in OP? I have said things that are clearly unacceptable to you. I have gotten myself personally attacked here, in insulting terms, by some people who evidently agree with you. Please add me to your list. Please? I am beginning to fear that you are afraid of showing yourself to be the total lunatic that you are—demanding a ban of a user with a long history of advocating for free speech, who came here to quote Greenwald articles about censorship and wartime misinformation in the West. Please don’t chicken out on me.
Here is an improved version of my prior suggestion:
Suggested text for OP’s list of users for which you want an “eternal ban”:
Thanks in advance.
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nullius https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=976210 Information terrorist, a real moron and Putin's troll! A slave who does not know his own opinions! Putin’s whore, just like Glenn Greenwald!
Thanks in advance.