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Welcome back to The Breakdown.

It is Monday, February 3rd.

And today we are going to kick off by talking about social media censorship and

deplatforming.

It's a conversation that while not technically about crypto is something that crypto folks

feel very passionate about.

Second, we're going to be talking about

Ethereum marketing. There's been a conversation happening for the last week or so around whether

Ethereum needs more marketing. So I wanted to introduce it and then give my two cents. And then

finally, we're going to look at whether Brexit, which went through last week, actually has any relevance for

the crypto community, either actually or philosophically. Let's dive in, though, around social

media censorship. Towards the end of last week, Zero Hedge published an article about a Chinese

scientist that effectively claimed that this person might be the root

of the coronavirus. And it linked to publicly available information around their phone number,

their email address, their actual lab address, et cetera. Twitter did not like this.

Twitter saw it as a violation of their rules around targeted

harassment and kicked Zero Hedge off the platform. Now, Zero Hedge is a much larger publication

than just Twitter. Twitter accounts for something like 7 to 10% of Zero Hedges traffic, but it did

have close to 700,000 followers and was a very prominent well-known account.

And this created a huge amount of debate and discussion, as it always does whenever an account

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