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Mike Dilger | 1 months ago (raw) | export | reply | flag +10 
 People who are "word thinkers" will be very confused by the idea that nostr is both censorship-resistant and pro-censorship.

Nostr helps ensure that people who want to be heard, and their listeners who want to hear them, can continue in their free speech. As long as people have access to the Internet, without much effort people can keep these free speech channels open.  But it takes two to tango.  Both the speaker and the listener (and their relays) must choose not to close down or censor the communication. Nostr also empowers users and relays to censor out anything they don't like or want.

This is like having your cake and eating it too.

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Dissident Sound | 1 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 OK but why did @fiatjaf feel the need to instruct the relays to start censoring ?

if the relays have no problem with the content - why does he ?

and who is he anyway ?

and why should relays care what he thinks ?

something is fishy ...
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Dissident Sound | 1 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 or maybe @fiatjaf is turning into Jack Dorsey

maybe he got a visit from the FEDs who made him an offer he couldn't refuse

and now he will try to gaslight us into censoring ourselves

and we should tell him to GO FUCK HIMSELF
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Dissident Sound | 1 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 perhaps @fiatjaf  realized that he will soon be sharing a cell with Ross Ulbricht, but the cat is out of the bag now - genie out of the bottle - and you can't put it back @fiatjaf 

if it makes you feel better @fiatjaf i think NOSTR was worth throwing your life away for.

because now i have a platform i can intellectually dominate and use to promote child brides for everyone !
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sankthoshi | 1 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 what you are describing is the dark net. It works there because all parties are unknown.

In the nostr case, relays can and will be pressured to censor by state and none state bullies. The only small chance to avoid this is the relay argument: that no content gets filtered. It is infrastructure just like roads.