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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.