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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Yeah, and it totally makes sense from an economic perspective. Being respectful to the culture of a host nation is totally a reasonable expectation, but there is a line where being respectful is different from “you literally cannot exist here.”

And the World Cup in Qatar :(

The reason events are hosted in Dubai is because it's becoming a good place for crypto regulation/tax wise.

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

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

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I’m not talking about regional events, that’s a different thing. But imagine if DevCon were hosted there? It’s not impossible to imagine: Algorand is currently hosting their massive annual event there. It’s saying “some people are unwelcome in our project” because going to it as one of those people risks de

The projects are inclusive of people / groups that are not inclusive. To not go there would be excluding them / people in that part of the world in some way.

The people =\= the lawmakers

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Yeah, usually some well meaning guy saying “if all your paperwork is in order you’ll be fine”. Dude they dig through social media and the NY Post has written about me, I will not be fine, I will be dead.

Not just crypto, burning man people (all of them cis) have told me for years how 'it's not that bad there, you should just go' as they're using VPN's to get around state censorship.

Pure stockholm syndrome.

Dubai is a scary place: Future's producer, DJ Esco, has a mixtape titled 56 nights after his Dubai prison experience for accidentally bringing weed

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/56_Nights