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I have some things to say about free speech; I'm free to say it but I do not have the right to be heard.

Subtle but yuuuge difference, and it applies to Bitcoin. Smol speech...

FREE SPEECH is a property of society (not Bitcoin, not X, not any property or platform) to let truth rise and prevent tyranny.

Its purpose is to enable you to speak freely without fear or coercion or punishment by an authority.

This way, truth isn't stifled, and peope are not gaslit towards tyrannical rule (see Orwell's writings).

Free speech is not a thing where you have a right for your voice to be heard or amplified.

Everyone has the right to speak, but no one has the right to be heard.

This is consistent with the non aggression principle (imagine being told that it is the law that you have to read a book or write particular things in a book said by someone).

Only a coercive authority power can stifle speech in society. The authority power makes up the rules and breaches human rights by making arbitrary laws against citizens "for their own protection". To limit there unethical power, we must uphold and fight for free speech.

If Elon for example, mutes a topic on his platform, he has the right to do that because X is his private property. You don't have the right to tell Elon which voices should be amplified or muted. But if the government does it and he obeys then that is interference of free speech.

Also, if people are being thrown in jail by the government for saying things on X, or anywhere, that is against free speech.

Now Bitcoin...

Bitcoin is designed to be money, and you are free to want that and fight for it.

Other people want it to be something else, you are free to fight that, or it becomes something you don't want.

Bitcoin is not a representation of free speech, it's a representation of your property rights.

Someone is shitting on your lawn, and you are respecting their rights to do it. You don't need to consider free speech and censorship here.

Censorship is actually part of the CONSENSUS RULES. Eg double spending is not allowed.

A free speech advocate who is misinformed might incorrectly say that his speech is being thwarted for not being allowed to double spend. You see how that logic breaks apart?

Bitcoin is not a free speech platform, Is it carefully consensus-censored environment (not authority censored) to enable money transactions without the possibility for anyone to stop it.

When we say Bitcoin is censorship resistant, it's referring to the inability for an authority to stop a payment. Not the ability for anyone to do whatever they want and shit on the Bitcoin lawn.

Stand up for what you want, run Parmanode, and install Bitcoin Knots with it (the default).

Umbrel is completely shit and supports shitcoinery. Also if you switch from Core to Bitcoin Knots with it, you'll have to redownload all the blocks.

Instead flash Parmanode on the micro SD card and import your Umbrel drive so that you don't have to redownload the blockchain when you install Bitcoin Knots.

You can also get a ready-made ParmanodL with Knots which is a wallet and node laptop in one, that is already built and fully synced.

I'm grateful that nostr:nprofile1qqs9df4h2deu3aae83fmet5xmrlm4w5l9gdnsy3q2n7dklem7ezmwfcpg3mhxw309umxcetgdpukgumjw35xzemdd9envat4xe682cmwv3m85aehvd6kyur3dd58v7re0ymk5mmfda3ngdtdddehydr9v9jzummwd9hkutcppemhxue69uhkummn9ekx7mp0f09vg9 also make it easy to run Knots.

Ya’ll want Nostr Lyn to write a sci fi novel in whatever spare time she has, or get back to finance?

In Japan I have nowhere to spend sats. Sad, but also kinda forces hodl

Not aware of any

"If I'm elected President, I want to reform the Federal Reserve" - Vivek Ramaswamy

Yes I know. Still have a healthy dose of suspicion for her.

Who do you think would be a better running mate?

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