Seeing crypto projects continue to host events in Dubai is a strange phenomenon. Either it’s due to ignorance or outright malice, but it makes a clear statement that there are some groups of people they don’t want involved in the project given if said people were to show up, they’d be executed/imprisoned.

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This is quite a narrow westernized view IMO. Why should Dubai's  residents be deprived of access to a whole industry, just bc the government of that jurisdiction prohibits certain values/actions?

Projects should advise guests they may want to avoid coming to Dubai, but otherwise I find such exclusionary view very woke

Considering if I set foot in the country I’d be murdered, state-sponsored style, I’m okay with cutting economic ties.

Sure and that's very reasonable. But your post reads as advocating entire projects cut economic ties.

I look at it this way: is it reasonable to have participants in projects that live in Dubai? Absolutely, it’s not the citizens’ fault for the lawmakers’ actions. Is it reasonable to have an project-wide event hosted there? No, not until the death penalty/imprisonment laws change for people just existing as they a

Yeah, totally agreed. This post just came about because of Algorand’s global Decipher event, which has pitch competitions and so on. But I’ve seen it happen for other projects. As someone building an L1, if I decide to host global events, I have to be mindful. I’d prefer they all be virtual anyway for greatest re

If it's meant for project members/contributors, then definitely agreed that organizers should be mindful of making it inclusive for the invitees. 

If it's meant for broad public audience, it depends. e.g. should Devcon ever be held there? probs not, given what you're saying. Should there be an EthDubai? probs yes.