What we can learn from Autocracies

TL:DR at the end

Autocrat leaders and their countries are often under critique from media outside the own country. As we all know, autocrats don’t like being critiqued so they try their best to discredit the information. This is often done by depicting other countries and their news outlets as enemies of the own country. By framing the source of the information as the “opponent”, the autocrat then can discredit the information as an attempt from the enemy to weaken the country, its political structures or whatever. The dangerous thing about this is that once “unfriendly” countries are framed as “the enemy trying to negatively influence us” all information from this source is potentially seen as an attempt to do harm, no matter the subject.

This is a crypto subreddit, why should I care?

Probably you already know where I want to go with this. We need to be cautious not to fall into behaviour as described above. We all want crypto to succeed and in order for that to happen we need to listen to people who criticize crypto. We need to talk about the cons, as well as the pros. Not every critique is FUD and meant to harm the crypto space. Obiously, from time to time there is misinformation. But that does not mean that we should discard all information not praising crypto. We should try our best to be open-minded and this post is my attempt to bring a little bit more open-mindedness and constructive criticism into this sub.

TL:DR Don’t discard all criticism of crypto as FUD