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.

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

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