Can someone explain part of the Viltalik blog's article "In Defense of Bitcoin Maximalism"?

Hi!

Sorry for the long post.

I read the article "In Defense of Bitcoin Maximalism" on Vitalik's blog (https://vitalik.ca/general/2022/04/01/maximalist.html).

Can someone explain me the thought of Vitalik behind these paragraphs:

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Now, maybe he is just an idealistic person who believes in talking to people to help bring about world peace, and a follower of Frederick Douglass's dictum to "unite with anybody to do right and with nobody to do wrong". But there's also a simpler hypothesis: Vitalik is a hippy-happy globetrotting pleasure and status-seeker, and he deeply enjoys meeting and feeling respected by people who are important. And it's not just Vitalik; companies like Consensys are totally happy to partner with Saudi Arabia, and the ecosystem as a whole keeps trying to look to mainstream figures for validation.

Now ask yourself the question: when the time comes, actually important things are happening on the blockchain - actually important things that offend people who are powerful - which ecosystem would be more willing to put its foot down and refuse to censor them no matter how much pressure is applied on them to do so? The ecosystem with globe-trotting nomads who really really care about being everyone's friend, or the ecosystem with people who take pictures of themslves with an AR15 and an axe as a side hobby?

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Especially this sentence: "Now ask yourself the question: when the time comes, actually important things are happening on the blockchain - actually important things that offend people who are powerful - which ecosystem would be more willing to put its foot down and refuse to censor them no matter how much pressure is applied on them to do so?"

He said that important things may happen on the Blockchain and offend powerful people (so people with a "centralized" power, which is contrary to blockchain philosophy). The question that comes makes me think that only the ecosystem (blockchain + its community) who will refuse to censor these powerful people is really valuable. That's difficult to understand to me because, of course, a Blockchain that is able to censor someone is contrary to blockchain philosophy. But at the same time, Blockchain should fight power centralization (and then people who centralized a lot of power).

I hope it's clear.

Thanks a lot for your help!