You should really stop using/smoking stuff that is bad for your health. You created a topic on the forum and shared your opinion and others shared their opinion with their replies. Although I am not sure if it was really a moderator that locked this thread, I can see why. Bitcointalk has its own rules. Bitcointalk does not equal to Bitcoin. And do you even know how retarded is it to compare a website on the internet, a forum to Federal Reserve?

You can always click here to save yourself from the Bitcoin censors and use fiat.

No one can censor you from bitcoin. Everyone is allowed to trade and hold bitcoin and no one can stop that. Your own government might crack down on you if you do illegal activities to earn bitcoin but bitcoin itself won't censor white money and black ones. Bitcointalk.org is a forum to discuss about bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies. It's owned by some people and the rules and censorship occurs according to their desire. If you want to discuss freely about bitcoin, you can start your own forum.

In terms of using bitcoin, I see we're still free from using it no matter how government restricts us to do so, the problem here is just the freedom of speech for us to attract other people or basically all matters concerned to utilizing cryptocurrency. In these case, people are still free to use it anyway, if Bitcoin is really powerful, even without a strong advertisement concerning it that is being restricted will not stop Bitcoin from being adopted by people.

Bitcoin is all about freedom - the freedom to be our own banks and be away from the strong control of the government and many traditional institutions who are working only for their own interests. Now, of course, free speech should be promoted and encouraged as this is the bedrock of real democracy. However, I also believe that freedom without responsibility and restraints can be endangering the freedom of other people. And with that, there should be a sort of balancing between concerns and issue because there is no such thing as absolute with anything we are doing. I don't believe that Bitcoin means we have to promote anarchy. We need more Bitcoiners who believe in freedom and at the same time so aware and cautious with societal responsibilities.

We have heard the "Bitcoin is a Bubble" nonsense more than 5000 times on this forum and I do not blame moderators when they too get fed up with the people posting that rubbish. As you can see, the mod did not simply delete your whole thread, he left it there for people to see the other side of the debate and then he or she locked the thread, because there were nothing constructive for spammers to add to that thread. 

Go to another forum that are focused on something else, like one of the Gold bug forums and post something like this on their forum and I can tell you now, they will delete it.

This forum offers people the opportunity to post whatever they want to, but when people repeat the same old mantra that has been discussed and debated 5000 times before, then they can decide to block those discussions to prevent further spam.

Meh, just read the whole thread. Your argument is too weak and has been discussed many times throughout the forum. You didn't present any evidences and started arguing that Bitcoin is this, Bitcoin is that. You can make an argument as long as you want but be sure to present some solid proof of what you are claiming. There's a lot of factors you did not consider before making an argument thus it is tagged as just another spam in my opinion and got locked.

You actually bring up some valid points, and a good perspective on the issues with censorship on the internet. However, I think you've taken your thread being locked out of context. First of all,  the forum probably was less moderated back then, although its not because moderators are being instructed to be less tolerant its simply down to the fact that there's more moderators. If the forum had the man power it had back then you'd likely see similar results. Plus, everything wasn't being repeated in the early days, because everything was somewhat new.

Trust me, there's far more censorship in most other places on the internet. You can definitely post anti Bitcoin posts here without them getting locked or deleted as long as they're actually constructive. Yeah, you'll likely get a lot of backlash like your thread did, but that's probably expected coming to a Bitcoin forum.

My guess to why your post got locked is because its repetitive, and isn't really adding anything new to other ongoing discussions in that section. However, it might not even be for your original opinion. It might be the fact that the thread is attracting other users which are quite frankly shitposting, and when taking into account that your original post isn't offering anything indepth or new, and basically encouraging other low quality replies that's likely why it got locked.

It seems that you confuse here several things, bitcoin, Internet and bitcoin forum.
This forum is dedicated to the bitcoin, bitcoin technology, mining etc, but this forum is not the same as bitcoin itself.
Everyone is free to use bitcoin and it has nothing to do with this forum.
As for the Internet, there is nothing called absolute freedom, and no one is free to abuse the Internet to insult, cheat, abuse others etc.
As for internet forums, there are rules, hierarchies on each one, and there must be order otherwise we have chaos and spam.
If you think something is wrong you are free to write publicly and ask for changes, or you can stop using this forum.
You don't have to be in this forum to use bitcoin.

Exactly, although usually off topic replies themselves get deleted, unless there's a lot of off topic replies, and sometimes that results in the thread being locked. Although, I think its the combination of the OP not having enough substance to it, and the off topic replies contributing to the overall state of that thread. If the OP was actually a pretty substantial post whether it was anti Bitcoin or not then it would likely have resulted in the users that are posting off topic replies getting punished rather than the whole thread being locked.

I am not sure why it was locked. I mean the points there I think would have been conclusively debunked and it would have ended up valuable to the discerning reader that wanted to see how each of those points would have been tackled.

In general though I think points should be debunked in public rather than just locked, it does open the board to some criticism.

I mean that is a post that is crying out for a serious debunking and could have ended up a net positive read by the end.

Some people really may think there were valid points in the initial post letting them be dismantled and debunked is fine isn't it?

If some or all of those exact statements have been conclusively debunked already, a simple link posted in large text would have been enough.

People will generally though not know what has and has not been stated, proven or debunked in the entire history here so we can allow multiple instances if people still choose contribute to the debate unless it was super recent.

Locking should be ONLY done for super extreme instances of abuse of the forum else yes you do open yourselves to undeniable claims of crushing free speech and implementing bias.

Generally the mods do a very good job here and free speech is way better than most places on the net. But there is nothing wrong at all with calling out any instances where they are getting slack or bias is clearly evident. Don't let creep set in. If you are wrong when you point it out, then you'll soon get the memo.