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And yet this entire thing is going to turn into an ugly left vs. right culture war, even though this is probably more about KYC regulations.

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To be fair: the headline is quite clearly crafted to deliberately invite the culture war, and the clicks that come with it. The article itself rejects the premise in its very first sentence.

Fortunately, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24894248

Fought by a tiny minority, yes, but that tiny minority can stir up enormous amounts of large scale contention and discord.

That "tiny minority" still has an outsized impact. The pareto principle applies to pretty much everything.

That's as much to be attributed to the asymmetry between destruction and creation as it is to the pareto principle.

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