Chris Liss on Nostr: Seeing a bunch of antisemitic posts in my feed. Not anti-Israel or anti-Israeli ...
Seeing a bunch of antisemitic posts in my feed. Not anti-Israel or anti-Israeli government (fine with me) but actually anti-Jew. (I’m Jewish).
I don’t appreciate this, might mute some of them.
But this disturbs me *far* less than the busybodies who want to make a bot that reports “bad” accounts.
Why?
Because the anti-jew posts can be countered, rejected, dismissed or shown to be ignorant and bigoted. (Seriously, you seem retarded to anyone with half a brain when you post those things.)
The guys who would curtail the reach of certain accounts based on reports are disrupting the marketplace of ideas itself, disabling the only corrective mechanism that exists.
You think the anti-semites are the “bad” guys, and the protectors of people from bad accounts are the “good”.
But it’s the people who would keep you safe that are the most dangerous over the long haul — once they get buy-in to the safety agenda, it will expand. You don’t believe me? Twitter started by banning Alex Jones, and many (wrongly) cheered. But it didn’t stop there. You got banned/throttled for suggesting covid came from a lab leak, that the mRNA was dangerous, that mandates were a violation of rights. Twitter was dead as a public square at that point.
"Safety” when it comes to speech is a scourge.
The anti-semites are losers, but I trust the marketplace of ideas to dispense with their meager influence over time.
The busybodying “safety” midwits, eager to optimize for “growth” or “comfort” are the existential threat to nostr fulfilling its potential IMO.
I don’t appreciate this, might mute some of them.
But this disturbs me *far* less than the busybodies who want to make a bot that reports “bad” accounts.
Why?
Because the anti-jew posts can be countered, rejected, dismissed or shown to be ignorant and bigoted. (Seriously, you seem retarded to anyone with half a brain when you post those things.)
The guys who would curtail the reach of certain accounts based on reports are disrupting the marketplace of ideas itself, disabling the only corrective mechanism that exists.
You think the anti-semites are the “bad” guys, and the protectors of people from bad accounts are the “good”.
But it’s the people who would keep you safe that are the most dangerous over the long haul — once they get buy-in to the safety agenda, it will expand. You don’t believe me? Twitter started by banning Alex Jones, and many (wrongly) cheered. But it didn’t stop there. You got banned/throttled for suggesting covid came from a lab leak, that the mRNA was dangerous, that mandates were a violation of rights. Twitter was dead as a public square at that point.
"Safety” when it comes to speech is a scourge.
The anti-semites are losers, but I trust the marketplace of ideas to dispense with their meager influence over time.
The busybodying “safety” midwits, eager to optimize for “growth” or “comfort” are the existential threat to nostr fulfilling its potential IMO.