Exactly. Plus muting and blocking are curation tools anyway. They're optional, no one forces you to use them. It's absurd that people are crying for content "moderation" by relays and clients, but are against users curating their own feed.
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It's not absurd it's stupidity.
They don't know what relays can do.
Well these are some of Nostr's main devs, so I would think they know what relays can do, and want to make them do stuff like that.
As if that will help them when the EU comes after them.