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Mike Dilger ☑️
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It is a violation of basic human rights to suppress someone's ability to express their thoughts and feelings, including their hatred.

It is a violation of basic human rights to censor hate speech.

If you hate Israelis because they've killed Palestinian children, if you hate Russians because they killed your family with a glide bomb, if you hate Americans because they killed your relatives bombing Belgrade, or Iraq, or Libya, or ten zillion other nations, it is your human right to be able to express how you feel.

That is why I am involved with nostr. I will work to support the basic human rights of every human being on planet earth in the face of all oppressive legal frameworks anywhere and everywhere. Those legal frameworks are flat-out wrong and I will fight them until my dying day.

Please use nostr tools and express yourself. But be anonymous when you know you are putting yourself at risk. Use tor and or at least a VPN and an anonymous nostr identity, and then let's have true, honest, open, constructive dialog.

Hate for an ethnicity is always a mistaken thought pattern, but you can't have that corrected by the community if you can't even express it.
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Иван · 91w
If you hate Israelis, then you're an anti-Semite and a Nazi 😏
David King · 91w
thanks for writing this. I had not considered how expressing hate speech can lead to a reduction in continued hate speech.
Apatight⚡️ · 91w
Fuck yes
ΛM · 91w
Well said… It's always good to hear devs' opinions on moderation, censorship, harassment, etc
Martin · 91w
If I create an anonymous identity to post something, how do I make it known? I guess, tag some well known accounts, hope that they support my cause and ask for a re-share?
Phil · 91w
Speech is speech. It’s up to the recipient to interpret it.
Oren ☂️ #BIP-128 · 91w
While there are lots of protests all over the world criticizing Israel (many used as a platform to spread unrelated anti-jewish or anti-american hate), the censorship in the UK targets the other side: https://www.yourlocalguardian.co.uk/news/24516089.sutton-man-61-chanted-who-f-allah-jailed/
calle · 91w
Based views. 🤝
Sat Stacker · 91w
Excellent post!! I would zap, if I had that setup.
₿ibbidi₿obbidi₿oom · 91w
The 1st Amendment means we have the right to provide safe, nonviolent spaces to express freedom of speech, freedom of thought, and freedom of conscience. Every potential collective problem we will ever have on this earth will either be solved by war or words. Therefore, we have a human right to ...
protozoan numbness · 91w
But what about everyone's feelings? We don't want to hurt any feelings.
crany 👽🧡🗿 · 91w
anger comes out in less healthy ways if not through speech and expression
Akiba · 91w
Such a difficult topic. Hoping nostr will be a better place to have genuine conversations. What about speech that incites violence alongside hatred? Should people be freely allow to tell others to burn hotels filled with people?
Learning Producers · 91w
Freedom of speech is why my startup is on nostr. Being human means having the right to express all emotions unconditionally.
Bitcoin Wizard 🧙🏻‍♂️ · 91w
On the one hand, that. On the other hand, the definition of what constitutes 'hate speech' can be expanded at will, just as today each country fights its own 'terrorists'.
MickBurke · 91w
And at LEAST as important, you have a basic human right to HEAR others. Nobody has a right to force you to hear them, but neither does anyone have a right to PREVENT you from hearing someone. That is modern 'free speech'; You can sit in your soundproof room on twitter and express your opinions and...
Ares Lictor · 91w
For a long time I though the the lack of free speech wasn't a problem possible in the west. I was wrong.
nostrich · 91w
I fully agree. Freedom of speech is a fundamental human right. I am also very much an anti-racist and anti-sexist. I think if we give freedom to speech to dose that will use it for hate speech, and we should do so, we should also use it to learn from it and counter such hate. Daryl Davis is the mas...
The real prophet Muhhammed who invented islam aka False Idol #1 · 91w
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John Christensen · 91w
I agree with this post. Free speech must be upheld. We need to remember that it took a lot of death and war to give all of us the ability to speak our minds. Speech is a powerful tool. And just like any powerful tool we need to treat it with respect. Because it can be used for good and evil.
nostrich · 91w
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