Re: Off-topic demand in Meta to ban users for their opinions chills free speech.
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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'm not johnnyUA but my answer would be: Greenwald is a dipshit.
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?
Ban is only reserved for plagiarism-related offenses and I'm not making the (inofficial) official Bitcointalk rules. I'm simply calling out their lies.
Like that:
I would like to add a text here from Alex Gladstein, a known Bitcoiner from the Human Rights foundation (the text is about Bitcoiners from Ukraine and Russia, here Bitcoin Core Contributor Gleb Naumenko from Ukraine, describing how Bitcoin is useful for them) :
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But still, he [Bitcoin Core Contributor Gleb Naumenko] told me that he wanted to be very clear about something: “What happened is a blatant, illegal invasion. I’m tired of hearing how Ukraine’s freedom from Russia is a U.S. intelligence operation, and how helping Ukraine to defend itself is bad,” he said. “To my friends in America, please remember that the Russian oppression of Ukraine is a much longer story than the existence of your entire country. Even as a libertarian, you’re supposed to defend other peoples’ right to defend themselves. This understanding has been lost.”
“I know a lot of libertarians in Ukraine and Russia,” Naumenko continued, “and they ALL oppose the invasion and don’t make apologetic arguments. They think supporting Ukraine is good. The Russian libertarians even support providing Ukraine with weapons. They know what Putin is.” One can be a dogmatic libertarian, or an anarcho-capitalist, he said, but this only works if your country isn’t at risk. To paraphrase Mike Tyson, “Everyone has an ideology until they get punched in the mouth.”
The surprisingly common angle in the Bitcoin community that the war isn’t Putin’s fault is important to address. For the purposes of this essay, a short overview of Ukraine’s history will be helpful, to establish the fact that Ukraine has been in the process of statebuilding — and resisting foreign attacks, invasions and occupations — for nearly 1,000 years. This reality is encased in the country’s national anthem, which begins with the words: “Ukraine has not yet perished.”
https://bitcoinmagazine.com/culture/currency-of-last-resort“I know a lot of libertarians in Ukraine and Russia,” Naumenko continued, “and they ALL oppose the invasion and don’t make apologetic arguments. They think supporting Ukraine is good. The Russian libertarians even support providing Ukraine with weapons. They know what Putin is.” One can be a dogmatic libertarian, or an anarcho-capitalist, he said, but this only works if your country isn’t at risk. To paraphrase Mike Tyson, “Everyone has an ideology until they get punched in the mouth.”
The surprisingly common angle in the Bitcoin community that the war isn’t Putin’s fault is important to address. For the purposes of this essay, a short overview of Ukraine’s history will be helpful, to establish the fact that Ukraine has been in the process of statebuilding — and resisting foreign attacks, invasions and occupations — for nearly 1,000 years. This reality is encased in the country’s national anthem, which begins with the words: “Ukraine has not yet perished.”
Calling our the Russian propaganda is enough.
And the average Kremlin troll is pretty butthurt when that's happening.
People spreading excuses for Putin's war (like you) should ask themselves one question: does it feel good to spread excuses for Putin's war, excuses for murder, for death and destruction? Or is your alt account death_wish related inspired by your Putin war-apologia?
I entered this thread because on free-speech grounds, I am outraged at a Meta thread demanding bans of users for their political opinions.
You are funny! Advocating for free speech while spreading Russian propaganda (where people saying that a war is going on, are going to prison) isn't a bit of a contradiction?
Not outraged about your own double standards?