You should watch the talk

I - and many others - sent bitcoin to the Canadian truckers when their bank accounts were frozen. When fiat dollar crowd funding was shut off by authoritarians, bitcoin prevailed.

Good for you but what is your point ? Bitcoin worked as designed, as uncensorable money. This is regardless of whether the truckers rights were being respected or not. Bitcoin doesn't know and doesn't care.

Alex @gladstein promotes Bitcoin. If what you're saying: "Bitcoin is a technology. It doesn't care what 'rights' it is granted or not. The whole point of Bitcoin is that it routes around censorship." is true, then your whole comment is a contradiction in itself, since Bitcoin cannot be hijacked for any specific purpose. Not even by the HRF. Freedom and Self-Sovereignty only.

Bitcoin is code. The people who maintain and add features to the code can be interfered with. Users always have a choice not to run newer implementations of the code but that also requires users understanding Bitcoin well. Understanding has decreased since the last big challenge to the code base in 2017 with the introduction, by evangelistic 'orange pilling' of many shallow, influencer led Bitcoiners. The struggle to keep Bitcoin 'true' is an ongoing one, and also the layers built on top of it. I see @gladstein and the @npub17xvf...c9as as highly suspect players in the world of Bitcoin developer funding.

> Bitcoin is a technology … yeah…designed by a group of humans. also, kinda everything at this point is *a* technology. lastly, BOTH are true (and probably more). Bitcoin has many points, functions, and uses. Your comment sets up a false dichotomy.