Buddy ol pal...here is the problem,.
I, unlike you, have no reason to hide my identity Mr IB. I have nothing to fear because I try to be respectful in my conduct even if I disagree with people. I travel the world promoting my region, our wines and the belief that this ecosystem of crypto currencies in general have the power to better our society. I'm constantly aware that my actions matter...that those of my peers are in fact listening and certainly I do not go out of my way to incite hate and to body shame people and spread toxicity and more far more importantly engage in psychological abuse of an entire community.
And in there lies your dilemma, you have cultivated a legion of countless enemies in your abusive campaign of hate in the false belief that this ecosystem provided you with anonymity. You and no one else have created the predicament you face. Certainly you weren't of the belief that you had some god given right to molest, harass and abuse a whole community for years with out some thought that eventually there would be a breaking point, did you?!?
Did you not consider that in a ecosystem of cyber punks and those on our society's fringe, now empowered with new found millions of dollars wouldn't have the means to sniff you out?!? For a man of your claimed intelligence...that's seems extremely careless.
I'm sure the "high" powered lawyers you claim to know would certainly have advised you against engaging in abusive and personal attacks on individuals and whole communities and would have advised you that such behavior could result in unwanted consequences.
See IB, I'm not the one you should be concerned about ...and I too have great legal counsel and understand that my words matter, maybe you should be more cognizant of that in your conduct.
...you reap what you sow!
You are still failing to account for the vast difference between a
public figure and a
private individual. Are you even capable of understanding what those words mean, much less comprehending how they may be parsed in the context of your quest to uncover and publicize for purposes of harassment my personally identifiable information?
It doesn't matter how "great" your legal counsel is when you have publicly issued multiple written confessions to such illegal and reprehensible acts.
There is a right to anonymous speech precisely because whistleblowers need to be able to call (for the benefit of the greater public good) out scams like Dash's Instamine, self-enriching Emission Reduction, and Masternode High Yield Investment Product without being discouraged by possibility of retaliatory actions from those who don't like their scam being exposed and discussed.
Many people don't want the things they say online to be connected with their offline identities. They may be concerned about political or economic retribution, harassment, or even threats to their lives. Whistleblowers report news that companies and governments would prefer to suppress; human rights workers struggle against repressive governments; parents try to create a safe way for children to explore; victims of domestic violence attempt to rebuild their lives where abusers cannot follow.
Instead of using their true names to communicate, these people choose to speak using pseudonyms (assumed names) or anonymously (no name at all). For these individuals and the organizations that support them, secure anonymity is critical. It may literally save lives.
Anonymous communications have an important place in our political and social discourse. The Supreme Court has ruled repeatedly that the right to anonymous free speech is protected by the First Amendment. A frequently cited 1995 Supreme Court ruling in McIntyre v. Ohio Elections Commission reads:
"Anonymity is a shield from the tyranny of the majority. . . . It thus exemplifies the purpose behind the Bill of Rights and of the First Amendment in particular: to protect unpopular individuals from retaliation . . . at the hand of an intolerant society."
The tradition of anonymous speech is older than the United States. Founders Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, and John Jay wrote the Federalist Papers under the pseudonym "Publius " and "the Federal Farmer" spoke up in rebuttal. The US Supreme Court has repeatedly recognized rights to speak anonymously derived from the First Amendment.
The right to anonymous speech is also protected well beyond the printed page. Thus in 2002 the Supreme Court struck down a law requiring proselytizers to register their true names with the Mayor's office before going door-to-door.
These long-standing rights to anonymity and the protections it affords are critically important for the Internet. As the Supreme Court has recognized the Internet offers a new and powerful democratic forum in which anyone can become a "pamphleteer" or "a town crier with a voice that resonates farther than it could from any soapbox."
The Electronic Frontier Foundation has been involved in the fight to protect the rights of anonymous speakers online. As one court observed in a case handled by EFF along with the ACLU of Washington, "[T]he free exchange of ideas on the Internet is driven in large part by the ability of Internet users to communicate anonymously."
You can choose to shoot the messenger as much as you like, but you are then focusing on the wrong things instead of the problems with Dash at hand.
People don't really like the truth when it is critical of them or the things they cherish. They would rather come up with reasons why someone else is wrong for being critical or conclude that "these things" don't matter instead of opening their minds, looking at the bigger picture and objectively acknowledging that things are not so great.
To sum things up: There is a problem with the Dash community that needs addressing - it is sexist, misogynistic, thuggish, threatening, hostile, defensive, thin-skinned, vocally inept, seriously lacking in passion and enthusiasm and seems to rely on the Core Team and the treasury to fix all its problems
Before you go off on the offensive about how Dash is like all other communities, we only need to see some stats to show how uninviting Dash is to outsiders:
See the total subscribers tab:
http://redditmetrics.com/r/litecoin#compare=dashpay+cardano+monero+IOTABasically, Dash struggles to pull subscribers to its subreddit while other crypto communities subscription numbers have sky rocketed, increasing to significant highs.
Now, I know what some of you are going to say: "But we're not trying to attract people who are already in to crypto, the nerds and the geeks and the libertarians. We're aiming for mainstream adoption, Joe and Jospephine public!"
Well, let me point something out you knuckleheads - r/cryptocurrency subscribers went up from 25k at the start of 2017 to over half a million as of today - these ARE the people from outside the cryptocommunities that we were and should still be aiming to attract to Dash - there are at least some of your Joe's and Josephine's stuck in that no-mans land, just waiting to be rescued by a project they can get on board with - too many are sidestepping Dash for other projects.
If the Dash community were sports fans on a match day, they would be some of the worst hooligans in the league.
Part of the problem is how the Dash community is 'structured'. When people work for the Dash Core Club they tend to stop contributing their thoughts and opinions, that raw energy, to the community. I'm not saying that they are not passionate about Dash and don't focus that passion into their work, but the passion and social interactions that the rest of the community can thrive upon is no longer there. They can't relax around the rest of the community and say how they really feel. It's like there is a wall between those who work in the Centralized Core Club and rest of the community. That doesn't feel like a real community to me - it feels like one that is divided!
This is a shame for obvious reasons - but mainly because the Dash Core Club members and the wider community don't get to converse freely or fluidly with each other and this takes away a big element of the decentralization and the shared ideas/discussions that are found in abundance with other crypto communities.
With the exception of around lavishly compensated 10-15 core contributors (well done to you), who are generally found on the Dash Discord, here, or writing Dash articles, the Dash community on the whole is seriously lacking enthusiasm.
The recent giant spike in /r/dashpay users is obviously artificial and not legitimate organic growth. There is no way it really has ~2,000 people online but only a sparse smattering of occasional comments. Paying for fake traffic is an admission that Dash lacks real community involvement and needs to astroturf with fake users.
