oh shit dude, now my full time job is making memes on Nostr

I gotta go overtime on the memes

Always!

Looking forward to discussing how the Chinese government couldn’t kill Bitcoin or Nostr even when it tried to put down bans at nostr:nprofile1qqsd0f68dvf98gvs9am9dp0lu0f4r7xzu2k89rm9tt448axf5tu6wlgphpy4c .

China is what the cybersecurity business calls a “red team” - the state most capable and willing to try to censor permissionless networks.

That it failed - shows the promise of both Nostr and Bitcoin.

Aiya

It is forbidden to forbid.

Probably the most correct answer

We gotta talk more about op_return

They're not here are they?

Who are Donald Trump and Elon Musk?

I go after every country that censors or punishes speech - this is just my personal story of why China censoring Tiananmen matters so much to me.

Today is June 4th, which marks the 36th anniversary of the Tiananmen Square Massacre. But you might not know why Tiananmen is still an enduring symbol of Internet repression.

Tiananmen was part of the reason I got into Bitcoin in the first place. I used to be part of commemorations of the event - I remembered that many of those who attended wore masks - afraid of agents of the Chinese state that would harass them and their family back home. I wondered about the dystopia of never having ease even 5000 miles away.

Tiananmen is still censored in the Chinese Internet, with even mentions of the date getting wiped off. This has led to a cat and mouse game where June 4th becomes May 35th and other variants to trick censors.

One of the first things the Chinese authorities did when they effectively took over Hong Kong was to ban public, non-violent rallies in Victoria Park in commemoration of the victims of Tiananmen.

One author has described his books as “June 4th” (China in Ten Words, non-fiction, banned in China) and “May 35th” (Brothers, fiction, not banned in China). Even today, to get literature or books published in China, you must strip away mentions of Tiananmen.

Tiananmen marked the crossroads between a faction of the Chinese Communist Party that wanted to grant more liberty and those who wanted to let markets run more broadly - at the cost of strict state control. That latter faction eventually led China to build the strongest version of Internet control possible - the Great Firewall that cleaves the Internet in two, and the same surveillance playbook of company, platform and government that now reigns as the default Bitcoiners and Nostriches fight against.

I’m happy to say that Nostr is one of a few pockets where open discussions like this can happen and that can actually cross borders throughout the world, backed by relays that can fortify this content how they choose - and that Bitcoin is playing its role to erode the systems of control that came partly because tanks met innocents that bloody day.

Running Bitcoin, growing Nostr

Sad

I just want to say that nostr:nprofile1qqsvrzpjh8khtfrg0gxdhf052kvsqj7p88sx8wr8u8622lsp82w96ns6s3skh is a sick space

Finally, I’m going to unleash my Suez Canal drip

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Haha I don’t know about CCP sayings per say, but a recent favorite of mine has been 有奶变成娘 - have milk become a mother - a sorta versatile take on being mercantile.

This is entertainment my guy

If anyone can get me the tweet thread of Busta Rhymes in full getting absolutely swarmed on X by BTC hornets ima send 2100 sats. Can't stop chuckling about how confused he was

This is the definition of based for me: be an American citizen, go to a dictatorship, do work so good that the bloodthirsty tyrant has to murder you to silence you.

Anna Politkovskaya