Oddbean

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 Just worry about spam. Never, ever, under any circumstances try to moderate legitimate content, in addition to rating it. Don't turn Nostr into that leftist pigsty called bluesky.

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 You want to legitimize every content? I think there are illegal videos that should be moderated on every plattform.

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 And who decides what is illegal and should be removed?

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 Technically the owner of the hosting system. And legally the state where the hosting system is stated in. And morally the owner of the hosting system. It is everyones choice, if one wants to commit illegal acts. But I would never want to host pictures or videos where people are humiliated. Not would I allow people on my servers, which do not respect warnings, after they have been discriminating to others individually or against a group.

Give me any reason why one should respect bullying and racism for example?

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 Good arguments. Do you think, that states should have the permission to crackdown on content you may morally oppose? Of course the owner of a system should have the fully Control of content he hosts or doesnt want to and you as a customer should also have the freedom to move away to another host or Software, if you think, this company is not meeting your standards.

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 Depends how objectively it is imoral. If it is a critique to anything that someone else is doing and this person can change it (as speaking or acting for most people are free acts, that have the source in your conciousnes and you can change it if you want) there should be no legitimation in silencing this critique. Since it would hinder improvement.

When a critique goes to unchangable things, like color of skin, sexual orientation or your origin, I think these are very weak attacks and should be clearly isolated by other users (morally, not legaly) but should only be banned, it hurts the personal rights of someone. Like if you would post my address, real name and phonenumber, this would go against my rights and I would try to make this post disappear with leagal measures. And hopefully most hosters would comply.

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 On personal level, I would also ban shit I dont like on my property. But you believe that the (un)-justice system of the corrupt state could save your rights?

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 Yes in most cases I think the justice system does a great job in securing my rights.

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 You are joking, right?

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 Nope I beleave this. You live in Switzerland too, or you know for whatever reason, how trustworthy the judical system in switzerland is?

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 No, I dont live in switzerland. But I dont trust any governmental Institution.

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 I think this is your personal decision on whom to trust. But in which manner does it help you to generally distrust?

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 You mean, in which manner does it help to generally distrust warlords, pedophiles and robbers?

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 No in which manners it does help you to distrust any government? Democratic governments are mostly driven by many people. And the most powerful are elected by the people. So I think there are defnitly some I do not trust personally. But the whole government I do not distrust because there are some untrustworthy. Since they need to orient their behavior on the opinions of the people. If not, they will not serve the next governance term. So I beleave that the government of a country always represents more or leaa its society. So problems in government do actually have their seeds in society.

This is like this, since governments are based and legitimized in society. Society is not legitimized by government and does not need to be.

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 That's not it. It's important to understand that spam filtering is not censorship, and filtering legitimate content that isn't spam is censorship. Nostr is not about not having censorship. What I'm against is stealth censorship. I accept stealth spam filtering, but I can't, on principle, be in favor of stealth filtering legitimate content. A relay has every right to censor legally dangerous material, or even the right to ideologically filter any material. Because it's a private server. I'm against not making this clear and not having a way to audit this. These are two functions that should be performed differently.