(I'm not even climbing up the tree of Bitcoin's energy consumption being many multiples greater than Reddit's.)
While Bitcoin arguably parasitises energy, social media parasitises human time and attention (which is a much scarcer resource), all while breaking down political institutions and societal cohesion and being a tool for foreign actors to manipulate people on never before seen scales. Social media is "move fast and break things" on a societal scale.
Bitcoin is at worst a speculative asset (no worse than most financial assets) at best a new monetary system in its infancy (unlikely but possible). It is clear to me which technology has more of a raison d'être.
I guess social media pays the salaries of most people on this forum, so the old adage "It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends on his not understanding it" applies.
Or maybe I'm completely wrong. It's happened before. The future will show who is right.
ultimately, once you start thinking you have the right to ban things you should be prepared for someone else to ban things you enjoy.
While there are different ways to evaluate any given topic, all opinions are not equally valid.
you may not like what I do with the power I PAY for but you don't get a say in how I use it.
Yes. Absolutely yes.
> you may not like what I do with the power I PAY for but you don't get a say in how I use it.
There are thousands of things you're not allowed to do with the power you PAY for.