If I decide to live a private life that no one knows how much I own, that is great and it is called freedom
If I decide to do KYC on all the exchanges and gambling sites, that is freedom
If I decide to leave my coins on exchanges, that is my choice, and it is called freedom
If I decide to share my private key with everyone I know, that is freedom
If I decide to use and reuse one particular address for all my transactions, that is freedom
My point is, no one should detect for anyone how to enjoy the freedom. You can only advice or teach, stop seeing people using exchanges or doing kyc as anti bitcoin
No. It isn't called freedom. It's called responsibility(freedom and responsibility can be viewed as one thing, but being irresponsible has little to do with freedom). Every person is responsible for his/her own financial situation. The people are responsible for their own financial mistakes, but sometimes they simply get manipulated and lied to. In that case, the scammers take the responsibility.
I don't think that using crypto exchanges and doing KYC is anti-Bitcoin. KYC is required by the law and the people are complying to the rules.
Trusting a third party with your coins/money is definitely anti-Bitcoin, because the whole concept of Bitcoin is to NEVER trust or rely on a third party. Be your own bank. Satoshi never told us to trust custodial centralized crypto exchanges.
