The funny thing is that there is a hard drive that can store 9 year's worth of full 2Mb blocks for 9 years. For $85!
The countries with lower average internet speeds than 2 Mb/s (according to the Akamai ratings of 2015) are the likes of Bolivia, Venezuela and Paraguay. We're talking ranks 119, 71 and 112 in the Human Development Index, respectively.
I don't know about you, but I think that the third world is as ready for bitcoin as it was for the internet in the 1980s.
Right now, we shouldn't hold bitcoin back in fear that some people won't have the storage or internet speed to run nodes/mine. But still, it's a phony excuse.
Did you read the link? It is full of classic supporters planning on restricting the capacity upgrade in April with an attempt to block the softfork with 5% of mining power.
That soft fork your talking about is SegWit, it's not a Bitcoin capacity upgrade it facilitates off chain transactions and fixes a few bugs that don't affect users.
according to Gmaxwell: "Segwit is not about saving space for plain full nodes" either.
... classic support segregated half-wit?