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.