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> it is never as simple as pulling out the torches and pitchforks screaming "BAN BITCOIN. BAN THE DARKWEB. STOP ICOs"

Straw man [1]. Nobody serious suggests banning any of these.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Straw_man

Uh, yes they do.

please check the comments at this very page. Some people claim that everyone involved is a charlatan, one specifically says "F... ICOs" and someone else that all ICOs could disappear and no value would be lost.

EDIT: I agree with you that they are not serious opinions worthy of consideration, so your point might stand.

Saying "Fuck ICOs" or "ICOs have no value" is not the same as saying the government should ban them. And even if you do think the government should ban them, that's very different from wanting to ban Bitcoin or the dark web; although there are certainly people out there with various reasons they think both of those should be banned, the chief argument against ICOs (that most of them are scams) doesn't really translate to either.

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