This guy gets it.
> The only way to defend free speech is to nuke the idea of benevolent censorship from orbit. Nobody has a monopoly on the truth, nobody can discern "misinformation" from truth consistently or without bias, and nobody can define "hate speech" in universally acceptable terms that don't recall blasphemy laws of centuries past. The alternative, betting on more speech to counter bad speech, isn't a guaranteed win every time, but it's by far the best option we've found so far.”
https://world.hey.com/dhh/free-speech-isn-t-guaranteed-to-be-forever-e7654685
He's gonna bitcoin and nostr so hard one day.
He seems close, doesn’t he?
Yup I agree. I think this whole control over speech that all these systems try to implement is worthless. I had hoped Mastodon would be an improvement but I realized in practice it just further fragments the speech censorship.
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