| For over more than 24 hours while the collection was delisted, OpenSea did not give any sort of rationale for their centralized decision to remove the collection from their marketplace. Even if you did own a Jew in your wallet, it would not appear in your OpenSea profile.
The communications I've seen seemed to indicate that The Jews had violated OpenSea's terms and conditions, though they did not specify which term or condition caused them to exile us. Furthermore, OpenSea's claim that they've "communicate[ed] with the creators" was denied by the collection's official Twitter account. What's worse, there were still plenty of scam knock-off collections listed and trading. So, if anyone was looking for the collection there, they would have more than likely bought a scam.
This sort of centralized action against a project is clearly a violation of the principles on which Web 3.0 was founded. Blockchain is supposed to be censorship-resistant, and OpenSea taking unilateral decisions against a certain project, even an outright scam, is the broken path of Facebook and Web 2.0 networks. Nobody should be the arbiter of truth or the protector of consumers.
People need to assume personal responsibility. I got rugged, and that's on me. But this sort of authoritarian reaction from OpenSea leads to a slippery slope that ends up with centralized power. and we all know where that leads.
Good thing is, because Ethereum is the base layer and not OpenSea, I was easily able to transfer ownership, view and even buy a few more pieces from this collection using other tools. Because the biggest market boycotted the collection, I even got them for a great bargain.
As more tools are built, the less we'll rely on specific websites like OpenSea. Their days of being the behemoth are numbered, and we are moving forward as a species. | 