Ugh. These silly conspiracy theories don't hold up to reality. An overwhelming majority of the technical development community, wider community and industry was and still is supportive of Bitcoin's scaling roadmap. Trying to attribute that to Blockstream or to the moderation policies of a subreddit (among hundreds of online bitcoin communities) is just silly and not grounded on any facts.

See my previous comments on that topic for some more info:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15774816

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15033611

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15033489

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15026822

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13911867

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13627362