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Damus was banned in China less than 48 hours after it launched in the Apple App Store. Zaps weren't even invented yet. China banned Damus because it was something they couldn't control. This is a right if passage for freedom fighters. This means you're on the right path. This means you're changing the narrative. This means you don't fit inside their rules.

The best part of it all? Nostr keeps pushing forward like a freight train that cannot be stopped due to it's openness and decentralized nature. These types of events are showcasing Nostr's censorship resistant technology.

Notes and Zaps will flourish and live on while we continue to build the Other Stuff. No one can change that. Not even Apple.
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Crizzo 2y ago

I don't think China banned Damus because it was something they couldn't control. They banned it because nostr is new and they want time to figure out what it is and if they need to control it before it proliferates. Same reason they banned Bitcoin mining and are now easing up a bit on it.

I heard someone talking about this on a podcast, so take that as you will, but it made sense to me. China will be fine with nostr because it is totally transparent. They can monitor everyone and the anonymity isn't that great. They want people to have an outlet to complain about the state that they can monitor and adjust their policies before things get out of hand. Nostr is not a subversive threat to them.

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Crizzo 2y ago

I think I heard this from nostr:npub1mygerccwqpzyh9pvp6pv44rskv40zutkfs38t0hqhkvnwlhagp6s3psn5p

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gsovereignty 2y ago

And also they can shut down nostr at any time, so there's no threat.

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Derek Ross 2y ago

That's possible as I don't know anything about Chinese policy, however it does not seem to mix with their current state of social media monitoring or complete monitoring of their citizens.

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cryptowolf 2y ago

and we think we are not monitored here lol

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gsovereignty 2y ago

They typically ban anything new that grows fast, and then unban it (or not) once they understand what it is.

I'm pretty confident in nostr and Bitcoin being adopted at a very high level by the Chinese government.

The bigger question for me is what will the US do when China uses Bitcoin to gain independence from the USD and nostr to gain independence from US social/legacy media broadcast their point of view directly whoever wants to hear it.