Cory Doctorow on Nostr: After all, people living under dictatorships know that spouting off about their ...
After all, people living under dictatorships know that spouting off about their discontent and desire for change is a risky business, so they will #SelfCensor on social media. That's true even if a person isn't afraid of retaliation: if you know that using certain words or phrases in a post will get it autoblocked by a censorbot, what's the point of trying to use those words?
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