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When nostr:npub1sg6plzptd64u62a878hep2kev88swjh3tw00gjsfl8f237lmu63q0uf63m was CEO of Twitter and Trump was president there were many calls to ban Trump from Twitter. There were many people demanding Trump be removed because either he violated the TOS or because they saw Trump’s tweets as dangerous.

While catching up over kombucha at the Square office, Jack mentioned some of these conversations and how there were compelling arguments on both sides. He asked lots of people what they thought twitter should do. So he asked me about Trump and other accounts, like Richard Spencer’s and the alt-right.

I’m very anti-Trump but I said I thought Jack shouldn’t ban him, because he’d face a shareholder revolt. Everyone said that it was Jack deciding things at Twitter and Mark Zuckerberg for the meta empire, but that wasn’t really true. The real power is in the money and that’s shareholders and advertisers.

I can only imagine what a hard and stressful job it would be to decide what can and cannot be said in the public sphere, as twitter effectively was at its height. It was an impossible job, one which shouldn’t exist. Jack did incredibly good at managing to find balance, and everyone hated his decisions because there was no right answer.

The reason for Bluesky, and now Nostr is to make it so no company or person has that kind of control. That the public sphere that is social media shouldn’t owned or controlled by any corporation or government. When something of value is held together without being ultimately owned by a person, organization, or government, the it is held in common.

What we’re building together on Nostr is a commons. By making it a commons that’s held up by our software and contrbution as users, we escape the trap that caught twitter.

A commons where we come together to make and sustain space.

A commons where we can do business freely without someone who can arbitrarily shut us down.

A commons where groups of users can decide the rules for themselves, and everyone doesn’t need to follow some universal set of opaque rules.

Who is going to step in though at the point someone is intentionally inciting harm to others, or propagating hate and oppression to extreme levels?? Like Hitler with the Holocaust etc….I am all for freedoms and allowing people to express themselves when they are subject to an unjust regime, but there still needs to be more thought and accountability for some things and not just wringing hands, sitting on the fence and letting everything awful happen…what about, and it sounds weird but allowing people to vote to have a post removed?? Don’t know if I have been removed from a relay here but think what hypocritical garbage if that’s the case, for what hahaha??? I also wholeheartedly agree that this platform needs to be able to delete items yourself. Seems nonsensical to remove that freedom from an individual

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Otherwise and as much as I like nostr, there still is potential for it to become a whole lot more sinister. Imagine people posting personal info hacked etc, pics of your children etc and doxxing people…things even Mr ‘Free Not so Free Speech’ Elon himself wants to shut down…you need the ability to remove posts

Screenshots make this effectively impossible

There are some sites which attempt to prevent screenshots, eg onlyfans etc… couldnt something be implemented where a user could amend settings to prevent screenshots on their own posts..?

Seems I once read about screenshots “cut and paste if you nasty “.

Friends don’t lie, as fake excuses are easy to justify corruption and tyranny by.

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Doesn’t this problem sit outside of the scope of social media? I see no reason why it should be or could be solved by a single company or institution. Like how in real life, people say bad things and do bad things. We don’t seem to have solved that problem either (the police force are imperfect of course)