If someone wants to create a bar that can serve both Nazis and the rest of us, go for it. It might not work for reasons described, but maybe it will, and if it works we can stop feeling the need to spend our time on Nazi patrol. There’s a difference between a bar and a social network so the analogy only goes so far. And the interviewer was definitely doing a gotcha game. Next question would be some edge case scenario about a 6 foot 7 transgender girl in a girls high school basketball team or something. I think the policy to not get into was a good one.
Substack CEO Chris Best Doesn’t Realize He’s Just Become The Nazi Bar by Mike Masnick. It’s important to look at this when we think about nostr. Now before you jump to say Mike’s pro-censorship, remember he wrote the very influential piece on social media: Protocols, Not Platforms: A Technological Approach to Free Speech*
Take a read, I’m curious what folks think? How do we create spaces where we can both have free speech and be able to kick the nazis out of the bar?
* https://knightcolumbia.org/content/protocols-not-platforms-a-technological-approach-to-free-speech
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