I understand that foreigners aren’t protected by our freedom of speech laws but this sure makes me uneasy by normalizing this type of behavior. It makes me think of the old German poem “first they came”

First they came for the twitter user

And I did not speak out

Because I was not a twitter user

Then they came for the Facebook user

And I did not speak out

Because I was not a Facebook user

Then they came for the TikTok user

And I did not speak out

Because I was not a TikTok user

Then they came for the instagram user

And I did not speak out

Because I was not a Instagram user

Then they came for me

And there was no one left

To speak out for me

#nostr fixes this

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Freedom of speech is natural law, but anything you say can and will be used against you. Governments of the world seems to be on the side of using anything you say against you. That's why anonymous and pseudonymous speech is important.

It's part of the American tradition because there has always been leaders with totalitarian tendencies who wish to use your speech against you. I see nostr as a place for speech that is outside of the government surveillance system. We're like the Anti-Federalist Papers online.

It's important because, history shows us that even the USG, nostr:nprofile1qqsgfhhxuemwtwm8kjk5uppv7uxtmp5pz4wm2dv59lxx5pfnsk98ysqppemhxue69uhkummn9ekx7mp0jc6kr6 npub1sn0wdenkukak0d9dfczzeacvhkrgz92ak56egt7vdgzn8pv2wfqqhrjdv9 revealed that the government does not respect our 4th amendment rights, nor the 4th amendment rights of citizens of the world.

Yes freedom of speech is natural law but how others perceive that speech and judge/discriminate against you is uncontrollable. I 100% agree with all that you say, most importantly how anonymity and pseudonymity is important. 🤙

"Governments of the world seems to be on the side of using anything you say against you." - Yes, IF we let them get away with it! We outnumber them literally hundreds if not thousands to one AND we have the power of the wallet and purse! Every time someone stands up and says "NO!" we slow their progress, if enough of us did so, we would regain ground. If we all did, we would have a new system just though power of numbers. The problem is that UNLESS we fight back now, they will take the power of speech and wallet away from us - Censorship and Central Bank Digital Currencies are incredibly dangerous for EVERYONE on this planet.

The sheep are herd animals by nature.

Americans don't even have freedom of speech anymore.

They forgot about the second amendment and they lost the first.

These are sad times

Even if you like Trump and this policy you have to know the other side will be enbolded to other things. This is how we lose the freedoms we have.

Its absurd that so called freedom loving people support this nonsense.

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