There are still many European governments who are fiercely prosecuting mixers and other sites, and nothing is stopping them from targeting Bitcointalk.org either. That means theymos should wait until a time when most of the world's attitude to mixers is warm, before changing his decision.
I remember this post:
I intend to ignore all stupidity coming out of the EUSSR.
Regarding eXch and the forum, two weeks ago, admin has asked staff members to stop advertising for that service, and the reason was the quote above.
I did not know this. But it makes sense, given this post:
There's a giant institution with guns out there which wants to destroy every centralized, destroyable component they can find related to privacy. Every centralized privacy service is at risk of being nuked from orbit at any moment, and you want to be nowhere near the strike zone. ~
I'm certainly not saying that privacy is a lost cause, but this environment requires a much higher standard of robustness and decentralization. This isn't as free a world as it was when Bitcoin was first created.