[edblarney]

"starts spouting hyperbolic, overblown rhetoric about overthrowing the social order"

Because bitcoin is attractive to antagonists.

Just take it all with a grain of salt.

The 'Articles' of the statement I think are also objective - they're making what they think is a 'politically neutral, all inclusive' statement, when really they're not - their pushing a specific kind of ideal.

I think that technology can enable democracy, but that the two don't need to be really tightly bound.

[rebuilder]

The articles are from the UN declaration of human rights. I don't know whether they only selected a few for brevity or because they didn't agree with all of them.

[deejbee]

The missing right to life felt like a fairly glaring omission to me, but as you say it might just have been left out for brevity.