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Once again, where is the controversial content that would get banned on Twitter?

https://www.reddit.com/r/watchpeopledie got banned on Reddit but I just ran into something quite similar on Twitter which did not get banned in months: https://twitter.com/1secB4disaster

Thinking back what else got banned for being gory or sexual ... how come, almost nothing of that made its way to nostr yet? Is it because relay operators keep things nice and civilized? Is there anything ban-worthy happening in Chinese or Russian? What are we doing here?

Last time I asked this, the "best" answer was "zaps get banned on Apple". Come on guys, this is not what we are building for, right?

I hope to see stuff on nostr that some government or another genuinely wants to see banned. Wikileaks maybe?

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StellarStoic 2y ago

Yes but not on clearnet. Government can easily DDoS attack on a relays they want to hide.

Look how quickly China plebs were silenced.

Tor relays are a thing and it might be that some weird uncivilized stuff is already at some Tor relays that we don't know of.

Leo Wandersleb 2y ago

Tell me more! There are ways to deal with DDoS. Would it help to limit access to a relay to a group of paying users? I'm working on that as I always found it weird how relays do not count at all the resources that go towards answering read queries.

StellarStoic 2y ago

I'm not an expert on relays and only thinking out loud. Making payed relays or any other obsticle for bots will definitely help.

I find these two articles about #nostr #Privacy

They might give you some useful info

https://ron.stoner.com/nostr_Security_and_Privacy/

https://foundationdevices.com/2023/03/privacy-on-nostr/

david 2y ago

On the question of why we haven’t seen lots of controversial stuff on nostr:

One possibility is that it’s just too early, and the bad actors haven’t discovered it.

Another possibility is that centralized platforms like Twitter, Reddit, etc are hungry for ad revenue, so they end up promoting the controversial stuff that grabs attention. With nostr, there’s no ad revenue, so no profit in generating controversy.

Another is that the centralized platforms become captured by state actors with malevolent intent, unrelated to ad revenue. With nostr, there’s no one to capture.