I'm the sort of person who really dislikes drama and fighting with others. It's exhausting, and in all scenarios it boils down at its root to fighting for self interest and egotism.

However, some situations come about where you have to take at least a bit of a stand and stir up at least a bit of drama.

Saturday night, I found out, mostly via a deluge of PMs on TradingView, that all of my Ideas had disappeared from the site. They were locked for "violating TradingView's house rules". After about an 8 hour wait, I finally received a follow up to my support ticket where I was told they were banned for having a tipjar address in the body of the post.

Apparently, that would have been okay if I were paying for a premium subscription and had it in the "signature field".

So, before we proceed, if the issue is that I couldn't have a tipjar in the body of the post, then fair enough. No worries. A simple PM or email from moderators at any point in history would have led to am amicable resolution of the situation.

Yet, for the last ~30 days, while my Ideas have been among the most viewed on the entire site, it went completely unnoticed by moderators? Possible. I mean, they could be grossly incompetent, or completely blind. Experience has taught me that things are rarely so simple.

So I thought to myself today, if the issue is that this is pretty much just them wanting to get paid their fees for a Premium Subscription, why don't we resolve the matter by me buying a Premium Subscription? Well, so far, no good.

When dealing with censorship situations, a few key points about the nature of the matter have to be pointed out:

Nobody is ever going to come out and blatantly censor you and make themselves look guilty. A pretext and an excuse will always be created, so that they can say you're the one who's wrong, and they're just following the rules; The situation is very often is extreme in terms of how broad sweeping it is and the censors cannot be reasoned with because they always dig into the semantics and technicals of why their decision is right; and Conveniently, no prior communication or attempt to resolve things amicably is ever launched on their side. It's always a sudden "hammer" that comes as a surprise, that you have to deal with.

The reality is that I was the most read, and most outspoken, trader on TradingView about Bitcoin Cash. My ideas were not ordinary technical analysis, but had much information on the true reality of the situation between BTC and BCH.

And one of my most recent Bitcoin Cash ideas was even featured on TradingView's Medium Blog:

Virtually everything I post, by nature, contradicts the inversion narrative that TradingView is, itself, a part of, on a most, most fundamental level.

So, in my eyes, it's far from a case of technicality or procedure. I don't believe in coincidences. There are no coincidences, especially in a war that is fought with words and not swords.

It simply doesn't make sense to annihilate all of one of your top author's content, without warning or notice, and with no attempt to resolve things amicably, while capitalizing on a technicality, unless your objective is to silence.

So, how much content did TradingView censor, exactly? Everything in pink is locked and hidden forever from view (there's 6 pages in the album):

“When you tear out a man's tongue, you are not proving him a liar, you're only telling the world that you fear what he might say.”

As it stands today, I now face a problem. I can buy a premium subscription on TradingView and continue on from scratch. A small bump in the road, right?

The problem is, what do I do when the next round of censorship comes? What do I do when the third round of censorship comes?

Because the reality is, it is coming. Narrative control is the battlefield during this stage of history, and whoever fails to tow Blockstream's party line will become a target.

Update: November 30

Top poster and one of the better analysts on TradingView, Excavo, has started putting tipjar addresses in the body of his post/comments.

https://www.tradingview.com/chart/BTCUSD/l8IDt5qk-BITCOIN/

https://www.tradingview.com/chart/DOGEBTC/ggPqWTrn-Doge/

I'm currently running a test to see if this gets locked for violating house rules as well.

24 hours after reporting, no bans. Let's embed these into the post since the Yours guys gave us the option.