StevenB on Nostr: It brings up an interesting question. If you can surgically censor something as ...
It brings up an interesting question. If you can surgically censor something as abhorrent as CP, then you can also surgically censor other forms of speech. And I’m not even sure how you can censor it. Any asshole can create an nsec, link to abhorrent content, post it to multiple relays, and tag it as asknostr. You can ban that npub, but creating another one is trivial. And it’s not like cloaking IPs is difficult. It seems like it becomes a game of whack-a-mole in which any jackass can easily ruin your experience if you happen to be looking at content based on an innocent tag.
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