@i_Ethereum Account Banned on X

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When the X Becomes a Cross to Bear:

This isn’t a tantrum piece. It’s not a rage-post, a “poor me” performance, or even a goodbye letter. It’s a record. A moment of clarity, preserved in writing. Because sometimes the only way to stay sane in a rigged system is to call it what it is—out loud, and for the record.

After five appeals, countless hours of original thought, over 200 published articles, and years of community-building around open-source blockchain tech, the iEthereum Advocacy Trust’s voice on X (formerly Twitter) has been permanently silenced. @i_ethereum is gone. Not just suspended. Removed. Vanished. Scrubbed from a platform that, for better or worse, has branded itself as the “town square” of our digital age.

We didn’t break the rules. We broke the mold. And maybe that’s the real offense.

What They Said

The reason given? “Impersonation” and “inauthentic activity.” When we asked for clarification—after our fifth and final appeal—we received the same reply every time:

No specifics. No path forward. No accountability. Just a link to a dense, vague policy page and a hollow dismissal: “Thanks, X Support.”

That’s the part that stings—not just the censorship, but the cowardice of it. You invest yourself in a platform, you build your presence honestly, you follow their own procedures for appeal, and in return you get corporate indifference dressed up as due process.

Let’s Be Clear: Who Did We Impersonate?

This is where it gets absurd.

@i_ethereum has never pretended to be anyone else. The account name refers to iEthereum, a public ERC-20 token that’s been quietly trading for years. We have disclaimers for each of our articles. It’s open-source. Nobody owns it. Just like Bitcoin. You’ve seen handles like @BitcoinCowboy, @bitcoinmagazine, @ethereum, @BTC, and hundreds of others—all freely discussing their coin of choice without needing official status.

If talking about an open-source token is impersonation, then every crypto enthusiast on X is in violation. Why are they allowed to continue? Why single out us?

Because we’re the only ones talking about iEthereum. That’s the uncomfortable truth. Out of 7+ billion humans, this little account was the only one giving this coin air to breathe. That makes me the global expert by default. That also makes it easy to erase—no one else is watching.

The Real Issue: Free Speech, Reach, and Assembly

Some will argue: “X didn’t violate your right to free speech—they just limited your reach.” Fair enough. I get it. I have no problem with private companies moderating their platforms. But when you position yourself as the protector of open dialogue, and then start punishing minority opinions or unconventional thinkers, you're not upholding the principle—you’re betraying it. And I am calling them out for for doing such.

And here’s the real legal line we need to talk about: freedom of assembly. My account wasn’t just my voice. It was a meeting place. A digital commons for the iEthereum Advocacy Trust. A place where open-source advocates, developers, and followers could gather, discuss, and build ideas together.

X didn’t just silence this account or discriminate against this accounts beliefs. They disbanded a peaceful, intellectual assembly around a public, neutral piece of code.

That’s a big deal.

The Irony of “Authenticity” in the Age of Automation

Another reason they cited for removal was “inauthentic behavior.” Let's decode that. What they likely mean is: “You used a scheduler.”

Guilty as charged. So does everyone else.

Every single one of my 200+ articles is manually posted first. Then I use scheduling software to keep a consistent drip of those posts going—once a month, spread over a year, so that people who missed the original post get another chance to read. It’s a responsible use of automation, not spam. And between those scheduled posts, I regularly hop on and post fresh, human content—comments, retweets, ideas, quotes. You can go look at the timeline (well, could have)—it was real, it was human, and it was thoughtful.

If this is what counts as “inauthentic,” then what does authentic even mean anymore? Is it just a codeword for conformist?

Why This Matters: The Cost of Silencing Dissent

Let’s zoom out.

iEthereum is a niche project. It's not famous. It's not in the spotlight. That’s exactly why it needed a space to be discussed freely. The conversation we were having—about the future of distributed ledger technology, about Apple’s blockchain patents, about the philosophical underpinning of finite-supply, immutable tokens—was valuable. It wasn’t noise. It was signal.

And now that signal is gone.

Not because it was offensive. Not because it was harmful. But because it was different.

X doesn't need more voices saying the same thing. It needs diverse, novel, and unpredictable voices. That’s how platforms grow. That’s how society moves forward. That’s how AI gets better, too—by training on the edge cases, the rebels, the outliers. The ones who see things no one else sees.

By deleting our account, X didn’t just censor a person. It censored a data set. It censored an opportunity for many to see.

And make no mistake—if this kind of quiet silencing continues, the next innovation won't happen on X. It’ll happen somewhere else. On a platform that doesn’t treat originality as a threat. I guarantee this. I know this account isn’t the only one being censored for having an alternative narrative.

Final Thoughts: Where We Go from Here

This was my last appeal. I won’t plead again. I won’t try to fit into a box that was never built to hold real thought. I’ll take this loss with a smile, because in the end, it proves I was right and makes our voice stronger.

Open-source projects like iEthereum need open discussion platforms. Not gated gardens with algorithmic bouncers. Not black-box moderation that hides behind policies while avoiding human interaction. Not a system that pretends neutrality while enforcing conformity.

If you’re reading this, and you care about the freedom to explore new ideas—even ideas that seem fringe, even ones you don’t understand yet—then know this: your voice matters.

And if they’re silencing me and thousands of others today, they could be silencing you tomorrow.

So we move on to wherever real conversations are still allowed to breathe.

We’ll keep advocating. We’ll keep writing. We’ll keep imagining the world not just as it is, but as it could be.

And when the history of digital censorship is written, let it be known; this technology can either free us or enslave us. This is why voice and narrative matters; and why the iEthereum Advocacy Trust was born in the first place.

@i_Ethereum spoke.

X silenced.

And yet the code is still alive.

If you are reading this and are interested, we have already come up with a solution that bypasses these centralized social media platforms. These solutions cost money and need investment but the process is is established. If you are an investor or are a competitor to X.com, I hold a future solution ready to go. By the time you read this; this concept, this process will be, “Patent Pending!”

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