Also, on a side not, I find fascinating that if on one hand you criticize Elon for “gatekeeping speech”, on the other you express concerns about the contents you don’t like - and imply that you welcome censorship of those. My sense is that you are for the freedom of *your* speech, but against the freedom of speech of others, or in any case, such freedom is conditional.
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There is "content I don't like" and content I hope we can all agree upon is utterly vile and has no place being stored on any server anywhere.
Putting up pictures of defiled young people has nothing to do with free speech btw - in any way, shape or form. I am "fairly" sure you agree with me on this one salient point...
I agree with you that child porn is vile and criminal. I don’t want to see it at all, in any shape of form. BUT… I never said I am for “freedom of speech”. In fact I don’t believe in it. My true point is such thing does not exist. What does exist is restricted/unrestricted speech, or better said, restricted and unreatricted media. Sharing porn might not strictly be a freedom of speech issue but under a true freedom of speech paradigm you have zero means to impede it. This is the gigantic fallacy of “libertarians” and West in general. Individual freedoms are abstractions we invented to fit a consummeristic society into a moral paradigm of sorts. In nature you are free to do whatever you are physically adept to survive. Nothing is handed to you other than life itself.
Well the Sovereign Bitcoiners or Natural Law Bitcoiners will argue that the only thing you really aren't allowed to do is kill others (sometimes this is adapted to "thou shalt not steal")
I quite like that way of living. But as you say, how does that hold up in a society that does want protections from the vilest of things which only just fall short of taking someone's life?
I guess there is no answer. We pray that once Nostr is attacked in such ways that we find ways of countering vile actions. I am sure someone clever will come up with some kind of mechanism for doing so.
As A Antonopolous once said the assymetry of evil means that good should win. The answer to "bad speech" is "more free speech" and not less. This is important to understand...
I think we are converging towards common grounds. The answer to your rhetorical question is, such way of living cannot be protected because it would lack any mean not only of censorship but also the set of heuristics needed to find a common solution, as well as any countermeasure to evil. If you silence an anon pedo on twitter does it mean he stopped hurting children? Of course not, but we can get the feeling or the vibe that our internal world, or our own internal representation of such world, is devoid of that content. And yet most people that openly vouche for children protection and blast on Elon basically just wish for a timeline that does not make them feel uncomfortable with the product they are consuming. Those Bitcoiners sects you mentioned are so far off the libertarian spectrum that are not even worth considering in my opinion. What they advocate for is anarco-fascism, a state of anarchy “mantained” by the use of arbitrary individual force…. Happy gunning? 😊