Cassie Heart
@cassie
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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Emre Tekisalp
@etekis
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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zico
@zico
do you know about Wahhabism? I'm half syrian, have no desire to ever step foot in those places. I would live to visit syria again in my lifetime. I do agree with you that the people of these regimes shouldn't be punished, but when the government is that corrupt... the world is very complicated.
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Emre Tekisalp
@etekis
Ofc I do. And I'm fully sympathetic to individuals being left out bc their lives might be in danger. I'm born and raised in Turkey and although it's not as bad yet, these examples are our nightmare scenarios. I think I reacted to something different than what @cassie originally meant.
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Emre Tekisalp
@etekis
My position is public events should ALSO be available to residents of these countries, esp those who may not be able to travel. Otherwise we risk excluding their exposure to such movements and technologies that might help expand their freedoms as individuals.
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