Solana criticized for scrubbing divisive ‘America is Back’ video
It appears that Solana just can’t win. After facing backlash for its jingoistic and seemingly diversity-critical new “America is Back — Time to Accelerate” ad, it’s now copping heat from the crypto community for trying to pretend the whole thing never happened. The ad, which was posted on Monday afternoon, Features a man — representing America — being told by a therapist that his thoughts about innovation — specifically multi-planetary travel, nuclear energy, crypto, and AI — are simply a symptom of “ rational-thinking syndrome ” and that he should focus on something “more productive.” Took them 9 hours to delete it. Also all the major players in the Solana ecosystem suddenly delete their tweets promoting/supporting the ad and RT’d and liked takes about it being bad. They approved this, supported it and celebrated it. They rolled it back because it hurt… pic.twitter.com/kPMERDpTcn — Adam Cochran (a...