Joe on Nostr: Fair but I think it almost never costs more to censor than to allow. Humans like to ...

Fair but I think it almost never costs more to censor than to allow. Humans like to be in spaces that other humans, either implicitly or explicitly, aren't allowed to enter. We'll gladly pay for that. And most humans also don't like labour, including the labour of having to create and maintain such spaces themselves (those that do are outliers). Humans love to outsource. Therefore, for an online business, setting rules drives revenue, and even if it costs more in absolute terms to censor this or that, those costs are offset by the gains in revenue from people willing to outsource the labour of curation.