Yes most Nostr users right now are free speech absolutists and that gives me hope.
Every day lately I encounter somebody on here who just can't wrap their head around the concept however. They're so aghast at the idea that anybody can say anything on here.
I’m not aghast at it, it’s important and needed. It doesn’t mean that extreme views should consistently be level with general society or have the same visibility.
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Ok? Shout that as loud as you want and as often as you want.
90%+ of users will not want that on their timeline, and will actively avoid it.
It creates mayhem and destroys civil conversation.
Extreme views? You’d be surprised by how many ppl hold opinions you can’t discuss in polite society. That’s why the internet should have a higher standard of free speech.
Cool.
Let’s define extreme views in a constitutional sense so that the broadest moral view is codified as acceptable, but polite society is able to coalesce and not be shouted down by a vocal and obnoxious minority.
The majority from what era? The Puritans? The Catholic Church? The Nazis? The Mongols? I think you want a nice tidy answer, but history has shown that no such thing exists for humanity, and given our nature it’s unlikely there ever will be such a solution. The Supreme Court exists solely to protect the fundamental rights of the “vocal and obnoxious minority” from the fascist tendencies of the majority.
