Nostr Web Client

For the libertarians and anarchists among you: yes, I'm suggesting we should potentially tax ad-supported social media and search. I think we should be potentially forcing these platforms and services to bear some of the costs of the damage they are bringing to society. And of course, I think this will be good for decentralized protocols like Nostr and BlueSky -- which I think is a good thing.

pam 2y ago

Not from a libertarian / anarchist / nihilism perspective - but from an operational perspective, which country to pay the taxes to? And how will the laws of media and freedom of expression be implemented via these countries, upon Nostr?

Dev’s building tools and clients from more oppressive countries would not face the same liberty as in US, and even in US there are so many problems

I’m sure money and traceability will be an issue, and some will have to register their companies formally as something to show there is income, credit worthiness, funding opportunities if any.

But not all will do it for the purpose of being constrained by their government and the country laws as a media company.

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Mike Brock 2y ago

Well, all of the offending companies are currently US domiciled, so it's pretty straightforward.

pam 2y ago

Media control is not just via ad or rhetoric leaders but also gov’t and in US FBI and CIA and NSA - I mean Snowden, Assange, Twitter Files, and these are just the reasons one

How do you ensure complete freedom of media when government in the US expect the media to swing a certain way ?