On 12/27/2017 3:30 AM, > Does anyone have an option about how the things
going on today? Any
explanations
of the current state of the Internet communities? And what is your
recommendation
of a good online fourm for general discussion of freedom, security and
privacy?
Numerous incidents of potentially deadly violence directed at crime
thinkers, who tend to get deemed white supremacists etc.
Better publicized, and more common, destroying their business and career
prospects, as for example Urbit.
This has been effective in quelling dissent.
Observe that the people who made bitcoin work are all undercover, and to
the extent that I know who they are (which is not much) they are
international travelers with bugouts in place. Anyone who openly
purports to be an important bitcoin person is apt to be associated with
US Government law enforcement - entryists and infiltrators.