This is probably an unpopular opinionā¦but letās see..
Elonās smartest move right now would actually be to ally with Zuckā¦
Hear me outā¦
An overwhelmingly large percentage of the Brazilian population literally LIVE on WhatsApp and IG. Iām not just talking their friends, and scrolling. I mean this is how almost EVERY business runs. They donāt have websites down here. They build their entire digital presences on those two apps.
If Zuckerbergās transformation is real (dunno if Iām convinced, but who knows - crazier things have happened) and he allows for the kind of content X allowed to spread in Brazil, this Alexandre monkey would be STUCK.
Thereās no WAY he could shut access to that down, without the entire country stopping. Literally nothing would work.
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This is a GREAT moment for Nostr, but weāve still got a loooooong way to go before the network and the apps on it are robust.
In fact, similar to Wikileaks in the early days, we probably donāt want to draw too much attention right now to Nostr apps bc while the protocol itself is hard to censor, as was just seen, itās very easy to censor an app.
Granted, itās a bit like playing wackamole with Nostr, but once again, weāre not there yet. There probably needs to be 10x more *really good* apps, before we could even hope to sustain a forced shutdown in any country for that matter.
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Before anyone says āyeah but theyāre only stopping themselves from getting on Nostrā
Duhā¦obviously. But these maniacs are also fucking over the very people who live in these countries and require some form of connectivity.
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So anyway. Possibly an unpopular opinion, but I think this would be a very interesting strategic play.
And if you play out the scenario, thereās a good chance that idiot de Moraes here in Brazil ends up trapped between:
1. Having to allow X to operate again, or
2. trying to apply the same pressure to WhatsApp / IG
3. allowing IG/Whatsapp to spread uncensored info, and thus losing his ability to censor anyway
All three scenarios, he loses.
Curious to hear what a few people think on this.
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