Nine years broken: Censorship is not interesting now, nor has it ever been.

This August will mark nine years since discussion of the bitcoin project (outlined in the whitepaper) has been banned on certain "bitcoin" subreddits. The continued and constant brigading about that ongoing censorship is a detriment to free and open discussion on the path forward.

In 2008, the idea of bitcoin was set apart from it's preceding ideas (Liberty Dollar, e-gold, et. al) in that bitcoin relied primarily on freedom of speech to exist. It was published code. There was no one to arrest, there was nothing to shut down, and the values were distinct and separate from preceding currencies by design.

The idea of bitcoin was to write software to create a framework for individuals to mutually cooperate with one another by sharing information and communicating freely.

About six years in into the bitcoin project, people who valued authority and dollars over freedom and cooperation splintered off into a censored authoritarian cult. They're all effectively dead to the project now. They don't want upgrades. They don't want what is broken to get fixed. They don't want the freedoms they once had back. They've been brainwashed into thinking that hard-forks in software are inherently bad.

We cannot look to an idiocracy to determine sound values.

The cost of censorship is EVERYTHING. Censorship has cost the people who accepted it their currency, as well as their freedom of thought and their core values. They had freedom of speech and the freedom to transact, but they chose to go back into the cave.

Their project no longer functions as a currency, they LOST―and the values they present to show they won are wrong. They're a cult of people complaining about fees, paired with people who explain why transacting freely isn't necessary. They hold nothing of value and have nothing to contribute intellectually.

There are now eight billion people on earth; we don't need to pander to people who had freedom and chose slavery.

The longer it takes someone to realize that censorship was bad, the less they are likely to have anything to contribute.

There's enough of them to have "special" subs dedicated to people realizing that their project failed, but it's no longer related to bitcoin and we might consider politely telling them to just be silent if it took them this long to realize censorship was bad.