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Matt Finlay · 4w
The issue here is that a stroke of a pen can render previously legal speech into a jailable offence. Australia Parliament has just passed new legislation that, for just one example, outlaws reciting B...
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You are usually only guilty for what is illegal at the time you do it.
If I do something, then it becomes a crime, I can't be charged for it.

Of course, even these basic principles of democracy can be broken, along with freedom of speech, but Nostr is not even supposed to be a solution to that problem, it never was.
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Matt Finlay · 4w
I don't expect Nostr to fix anything. I see it as an enabling technology. When the state acts against the will and the best interests of the people, do we have democracy?