Amen!! :-)

Plus it just gives fuel for rumor spreading and further divides the community when we all should work together to find a good solution!

Regarding /r/bitcoin:

Some people argue that "It's his playground, he can do what he want. Start a new reddit if you don't like it."
Technically and legaly I 100% agree. But from an ethical and moral point of view, I really think that you should respect your community and not censor things. ESPECIALLY if you are in control of one of the most important sources for information (during a major event).

However, Theymos has made a CLEAR statement that he doesn't care about the communities view about things, he rather have them leave. 90%+ wanted thing to change in a poll that had MASSIVE response. That poll is now gone with SO many other threads!

Regarding bitcointalk:

Much of the same logic applies here as well. I think the question we all should ask us;
- Where do we want to communicate?
On a platform with one dictator that make all the decisions (and one that has stated that he want 90% of the community to leave if the do not agree with his view of things), or should we try to find a place where things like this is handled in a more democratic way?

This is not only about communication, it's also about who will earn money on that site....

Regarding Mastercoin:

I really don't know anything about it, but I think the recent events regarding xt is more than enough to question Theymos actions and position!

Well, I think others can describe the technical details better than me, but I can add one thing:

You can not talk about Bitcoin XT! You will be banned!     

This is the way theymos (who controls both this site and /r/bitcoin) exercise his control to promote his view on things...
Very sad when someone who is control of the majority of the information structures for bitcoin does things like this.

I have not made up my mind about xt, but I support it for now just because of this absurd censorship situation.

The only thing I know for sure is that the bitcoin community needs to find new ways to communicate, without censorship!

Logged in here for the first time in many months just to express what I have learnt today when I was trying to educate myself about blocksizes and bitcoinxt (on r/bitcoin):

1. (Some of) the people who are against XT is pro-censorship!

2. I can not trust this r/bitcoin for information anymore (and I'm not sure about bitcointalk anymore either)....

I really don't buy the arguments about bitcoinxt being a altcoin, and even if it is/was it's just something to big to try to silence through censorship...

A lot of people, including me are trying to understand what is going on and when "one side" use the same techniques as China uses to control their ppl, I really do not trust that  "side", although I understand most ppl, doesn't agree with Theymos actions...


I just was BANNED from r/bitcoin for mentioning bitcoinxt in a comment(!!!) and I'm quite worried what will happen here now since the same person is making the decission!.

Hej,

Jag var där och åt i fredags och kan varmt rekomendera stället oavsett om man betalar med bitcoins eller inte.  Jag hade lite problem med min betalning, men det löste sig till slut och berodde på min wallet. Fantastiskt att få köpa något "live" med BTC och de jag var ute med blev nog också lite intresserade av BTC.
...att maten var den bästa grekiska maten jag ätit gjorde det inte sämmre! 

/Jakob

Jag har bokat bord med ett större sällskap nästa helg, enbart p.g.a. att de tar bitcoin. Skall försöka återkomma med rapport!
Vad jag vet är detta den första restaurangen i Stockholm som tar bitcoin?