I've been seeing more and more evident hit pieces on XMR on social media, starting with the article by Greydinamics on May 17th, but just look closely at the memes and comments coming up on social media, "Monero, invest in underground crime" and other stupid shit like that...

I strongly disagree with advertising or using xmr illegally. Of course you can use any of the following for terrorism, crime, drugs, etc: your car, the internet, your computer, a screwdriver, your phone, banks, cash and so on... But that doesn't mean that's the main use, and advertising any of the stuff just mentioned as "only used by" or "intended for" criminals is beyond stupid. This is what 1984 sytle regimes use to brainwash sheep and use its people as unknowing, unpaid agents that act on behalf of these institutions.

This is an invitation to anyone who uses Monero for freedom to fight against this (likely agency or institutional) campaign promoting XMR as a tax evasive, terrorist, drug inducing coin. They're playing us, don't fall for it, Monero can be and is used for buying legal items, living a moral life. It's just sovereign money, that's all.

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[–] Scolding0513@sh.itjust.works 5 points 4 months ago

Monero is so resilient. the ecosystem is very organic

But the elites are also smart. they are trying to be very sneaky, not activate the Streisand effect too much.

It's all classic brainwashing just like they do with all words and ideas, they attach negative connotations and mental images to certain words and terms, that way they can control how you think and make you associate Monero with villany, when it is they who are the ultimate merchants of pure evil, with their manipulation, child molestation, and total control.

Think about terms like "Racist", "Conspiracy theorist", and "terrorist". Yeah, you'll be in that list someday for daring to use Monero, under some other term.

[–] shortwavesurfer@monero.town 4 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Then they fight you...

The Streisand effect is a real thing. The more they push this narrative, the people who actually think will start to wonder why they are pushing this narrative so hard and take an actual look at the thing.

Take those scammers for instance. They purposely use bad English and things like that in order to single out people at risk because anybody who knows better will not fall for it and those who do are the victims they actually want.

The more they mention Monero, the better it is for us and the worse it ends up for them.

[–] freedomtools@monero.town 1 points 4 months ago (2 children)

I disagree, but I got my point across I guess. What do scammers with bad english have to do with it I didn't understand.

[–] shortwavesurfer@monero.town 1 points 4 months ago

You know, I'm honestly not sure. I re-read my comment, and I can't figure out where my brain was going while I was writing that comment. I know I had a reason for it, but I couldn't tell you what it was at this point.

[–] hfondmanager@monero.town 1 points 4 months ago

We already missed you. Where have you been 😂

[–] dragonsidedd@sciencemastodon.com 3 points 4 months ago

@freedomtools Finally? Like, what took them so long?

Except the need for private transactions is never going away. And there is no better solution anywhere on the horizon.

It's like a scare campaign against closing the bathroom stall door. GLWT.

[–] blake@monero.town 2 points 4 months ago (2 children)

also ddos attacks on multiple remaining exchanges - wizardswap, trocador among others in the last week.

some have suggested this corrals sites + services onto cloudflare as a chokepoint for future censorship.

however xmr keeps on ticking even despite mempool flooding last month.

[–] Scolding0513@sh.itjust.works 4 points 4 months ago

some have suggested this corrals sites + services onto cloudflare as a chokepoint for future censorship.

this is absolutely correct and allows the world powers to decrypt all traffic going through providers like cloudflare

[–] shortwavesurfer@monero.town 3 points 4 months ago

I don't think Haveno is going to end up on Cloudflare.

[–] delirious_owl@discuss.online 1 points 4 months ago

Do you have any links or screenshots of what you're referring-to?