Gold mining also raised socialist-warmonger ambitions: it was forbidden in the U.S. during WWII, because it was seen as waste of resources. (I would have argued that the war was the waste of resources, not gold mining, but nobody asked my opinion..)
World War II was a waste?
On topic:
In that thread where that guy revealed that CN and Bytecoin were at the very least supporting each others lies, the CN/BCN shill accounts have come crawling out of the woodwork. There's a few of them registered with in a few minutes of each other as well, it's quite funny.
CryptoNote is now claiming that their website was hacked and someone placed fake whitepapers on it! Hilarious..
You Monero folks have to be extra careful about that code base imo. These CN people are absolutely nuts.