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"Privacy is necessary for an open society in the electronic age."

A Cypherpunk's Manifesto Eric Hughes March 9, 1993

#Nostr is an open society on the Internet.

It provides people the power to selectively reveal oneself to the world.

It gives us the "freedom of speech,[which] even more than privacy, is fundamental to an open society"(Hughes, 1993)

"The open society as thus conceived of by Popper may be defined as:

an association of free individuals respecting each other’s rights within the framework of mutual protection supplied by the state, and achieving, through the making of responsible, rational decisions, a growing measure of humane and enlightened life. (R. B. Levinson 1953: 17)"

source: https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/popper/

Good morning.

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Wasted Potential 4mo ago

But people act differently when they're anonymous. Are they still who they are underneath?

Marc Kat 4mo ago

People act different at the bar than they do at work. They are the same person, but act differently in different situations.

Nazi Germany is an example of a closed society.

The main problem is that people also act differently in crisis. The currency fails and it's time to identify all the Jews. Some planes crash into some shps and it's time to lock up everyone of Japanese decent. The 8h amendment is fragile. Privacy is necessary to protect the inalienable rights of individuals.

Wasted Potential 4mo ago

Agreed. But some perversions come out easily now that there's a veil of privacy/anonymity.

Marc Kat 4mo ago

"Privacy is necessary for an open society.*

"the freedom of speech, even more than privacy, is fundamental to an open society; we seek not to restrict any speech at all. "

What do you mean when you say, "perversions?"

Wasted Potential 4mo ago

Usually people are meaner than they normally would be in real life. A lot of sharing for sats etc.