Don't say "disinformation on both sides though", the heavy handed censoring of /r/bitcoin (and other forums) was open and intentional.

Anyone can go there and ask reasonable questions about why bitcoin has the transaction throughput of a 56k modem when the fee of a single transaction can pay for a hard drive that stores the entire chain. You will either get some reply that makes zero technical sense or you will get your comment deleted, shadow banned or banned. Sharp high quality people who wanted to make bitcoin better were in charge at first and it became a complete cesspool while being taken over slowly with a lot of lying in between.