Oddbean new post about login | logout While there are lots of protests all over the world criticizing Israel (many used as a platform to spread unrelated anti-jewish or anti-american hate), the censorship in the UK targets the other side: https://www.yourlocalguardian.co.uk/news/24516089.sutton-man-61-chanted-who-f-allah-jailed/
Yes I'm aware, and of course I'm against this.
Neither side should be censored. Not anti-Jewish hate, not anti-American hate, not anti-Palestine hate, not anti-Italian hate.
Nostr shouldn’t be censored. If people want their opinions to be heard they should publish them in a neutral algorithmless platform. But if nocoiners publish their stuff in a private platform hoping that the corporate algorithm will favor their posts over others, and then the government wants to put pressure on the corporates so that the manipulation will work in their political preference - then I’m not going to care for either of them. Let the corporates, governments and nocoiners fight each other, I’m out of this orgy. I will care for free speech only for those who use neutral platforms.
There is no such thing as an "algorithmless" anything that relies on computers. Absolutely everything a computer ever does relies on algorithms. Even just showing published posts in reverse chronological order requires algorithms. > But if nocoiners publish their stuff in a private platform Nocoiners, just like Bitcoiners, can use whatever platform they wish, including Nostr. There is nothing preventing nocoiners from using Nostr (or any other censorship-resistant system). > and then the government wants to Well, authoritarian governments can do pretty much anything they wish, including pressuring relays (just like they would individual platform), censoring them or disabling access to the Internet altogether. Of course, liberal(ish) governments are unlikely to do this (and to even care about Nostr as long as it remains as utterly irrelevant as it currently is), but if it's governments you're "fighting against", you'll need more than Nostr. At minimum, relays must be hidden in a darknet. Nostr, on its own, however, is mostly immune to corporate greed, which is often the cause of censorship.