The problem is not the social media. Noone is dealing with eg 4chan. The problem is algorithmic feeds that shows you must hateful controversial content. These algos are erasing your brain that’s why they are dangerous. They are very easy to bias towards spreading propaganda. So if we agree that selling crack on street of SF to kids is not OK we should be more emphatic to trying to fix this as well. 

 I agree with you that state should intervene least possible. Also i think they are trying to fix the problem (ef extremism, child abuse, …) with wrong tools. Typical govt incompetency. Yet I think feeds algos are actual problem then needs to be dealt with. Imagine if buy platform where kids use to flock and i start to sneak addictive hatefull shit to them just. Would you as a parent be ok with it? We can debate level of interventionism we are ok with here but we have regulations that govenrs company practices for hundreds of years 

 Would you be ok if i sell crack to your kid? Would you just tell your kid not to buy it from me or would you rather go and “deal” with me? If later would you consider delegating that as more effective solution? 

 What if i am 300pound shredded gorilla and you really have no way to “beat” me? 

 Also, i am 100% for max freedom so first it is company that needs to be “regulated” not the visitor. Second 2 consenting adults should be able to agree about anything so if i agree that X will shit russian propaganda into my brain then noone should be able to stop this transaction. But this must be maximally transparent. X must describe with max details what they are shitting into my brain. We all know they (Musk, Zuck, Xi, …) use the nastiest ways to grab tour attention and manipulate you. I am fine with that if they open the algos and let adults decide 

 maybe 🤷‍♂️ i just think that the same way some shows were possible only on tv (passive single option stream) some are possible only thanks to heavilly manipulative algos on paltforms like youtube. i think v4v will be different kind of content. something you actually want to see and make you feel good about the time you've spent. but likelly i am just naive 

 i dont think people would pay voluntarily for his videos. He is prime example of video "junkfood" that platform will trick you into watching and you hate yourself after. 

 Lol, look at the piece of shit Twitter is now. Musk basically make it playground for russian/chinese propaganda. 

 This sounds like IRS troll account 😂 Anyway, welcome! 

 Actually very easy in this case 

 Unless there is circullar economy developed state have full controll over bitcoin. I am saying this as someone who loves bitcoin and hope we’ll get to the point when it is unstoppable. Right now it is not the case. 

 That merchant needs to pay his bills so he needs to convert to fiat. State can block that. Having said that i dont think it is likelly in western democracies but what might happen that every coin will need to be kyced. Which i consider to be full controll. 

 It works because states dont care. Once (if) they do there wont be proxy merchants anymore. I think circular econ is actually not that difficult to achieve. Only fiat money you need is for taxes. I think if you charge customers in bitcoin+fiat it might be a good start. Having that functionality  in wallet would be awesome. 

 Ok, fair points 👍 

 The his has nothing to do with socialism. Happening across the globe. This has all to do with massive russian cyberops polarizing societies via social channels. 

 Nice moves. Lets send them some tron usdt. 

 X will never be paid only. Too valuable to spread missinfo. 

 Ie Musk is giving platform to Kremlins. There would be no way for Putin to spread all the anti-west narratives which Musk is deeply into. 

 I live in central europe. Lot of ukrainian colleagues and friends. Few russian. Even more after Russia started the war. Helped/helping refugees. I dont know anything that isnt publically known already. It is just that i see what Kremlin spreads on socials and lot of americans (leading with Musk and Carlson) applauds them. Very contra factual and sad. 

 Because it does not correspond to reality. Truth is not subjective. If i say sun is center of universe on public platform it does not make me right. 

 That is very limiting way to go by. You would never board the plane unless you check the math of aerodynamics or do a bitcoin transaction if you are not cryptographer and programmer. At some point you need to trust some experts if you want to live in this complex society. 

 True. You need to be carefull when picking which experts to trust (as you described you do). We are lucky we live in society with advanced scientific methods (open source, peer reviews, …). Yet fuckups mught still happen (plane crashes, data leaks, …) 

 Obviously i am just a dog on internet but can tell you second hand (speaking to refugees) it is very real. Friend runnig NGO helping raped girls by russian soldiers. Bunch of ukrainian friends with families in eastern teritories. Very ugly real war my friend. 

 One more thing, the reason why most west should actually care about this war is that it might be prelude to much bigger war (as russia+china partnership suggests). Many geopolitical commentators with very sound arguments implying catastrophical consequences to global security if russia suceeds. That means even you might get drafted.   

 Dont know where you are but my guess is that much further west than me. So your perimeter is obviously different. Your approch is to “pray problem away” by just ignoring all witnesses. I guess fine attitude if you live in a cave and dgaf about the world. The problem is “the world” my come for you. Participation on societal issues is important in democracy. 

 Maybe this is new feature or maybe sub-account would do the trick? Like list of welllnown thematic npubs shown in profile. Not perfect i know