This tells me that you are not in fact interested in evidence-based perspectives on social media censorship. Either that or it’s only censorship to you when opinions you agree with are being suppressed. How you “feel” is irrelevant, for reasons I hope I don’t have to explain.

The answer is that it was less censored than it is now. People just blew a few high-profile instances of moderation out of proportion and misinterpreted the nature of various official communications with the platform. In the last transparency report before Elon took over, Twitter’s compliance with government takedown requests was ~50%. Since Elon’s takeover, the compliance rate has gone up to ~80%. The idea that he was going to “free” Twitter was a ruse from the start, and Jack’s support of that idea suggests a stunning lack of judgment on his part, assuming he actually believed what he said at the time. Either way, no matter how much these billionaire tech bros claim to care about freedom, they will always prioritize their own material interests over the interests of the public. That is the lesson.

US intelligence agencies already said that the threats they identified with regard to TikTok were hypothetical. Of course, even hypothetical threats are good enough for politicians who already want to ban something. Either way, I have zero faith in the ability of our current elected officials to accurately identify propaganda, especially given that a concerning number of them seem to think the ongoing Donghua Jinlong joke is evidence of Chinese brainwashing.

I’ve not felt the need to edit or delete any of my posts here either, but our comfort with that is not really the point. People are choosing decentralized platforms because they desire more self-governance on the internet, and when they’re told that they can’t even delete a post here, which is a fundamental feature pretty much anywhere else, they’re going to sour on NOSTR’s flavor of decentralization.

Not to mention some people will inevitably say things that they later realize were incorrect or inappropriate or even hateful, and knowing that they can never fully disengage from their previous posts will make them less likely to use NOSTR long-term, especially if they have lots of followers.

This. The lack of user identifiers with SimpleX is quite difficult to explain to anyone who isn’t into privacy tech, which makes it a nonstarter for people who are averse to change. It has to be at least as easy to use as Signal. Even with Session, which is more straightforward than SimpleX, people still get spooked by the alphanumeric user identifiers.

Is 0xChat not filling the NOSTR-based messenger niche well enough?

This is why I’ve largely stopped interacting on NOSTR. The ability to edit or delete prior posts is crucial to a platform that prioritizes privacy and expressive freedom.

Make no mistake, I said what I meant. Your comprehension struggles are yours alone.

If that’s what you gleaned from what I said, then I’m afraid the problem is one I cannot fix for you. Growing up is hard, but I trust you’ll get there.

Just like I cannot answer questions that have no realistic basis, I cannot “dodge” them either. Of course, if you actually read—a task I suspect is quite foreign to you—you’ll find that I did address the underlying assumptions of your poorly formed questions.

Would you like to try again?

Allow me to clarify. Drag is performance art, not a gender identity, so unless you can find me a drag queen who is trans and also plays sports, then that part is not happening at all. As for “trooning out the kids”, all I can glean from this is that you learned what being trans means from 4Chan or Gab, but I will do my best to work through the secondhand embarrassment of that revelation in the interest of helping you out a bit.

“Child rape” isn’t relevant here; it’s just a key phrase you’ve learned to use in this context to give the impression that you actually care about children. That said, should you find yourself genuinely (and rightfully) caring about this topic in the future, I invite you focus your attention on churches within the orthodox Christian tradition.

Gender-affirming care does not allow surgery or hormones until the medical age of consent, which is right at or immediately before legal adulthood in every country that has a modernized medical system. Minors who are questioning their gender identity are only afforded the opportunity to socially transition (i.e., name, pronouns, clothing, hair, etc.). They may also be permitted, after extensive consultation, to go on puberty blockers for a limited period.

The number of trans women who are also elite athletes is vanishingly small. You could probably count them two hands. Those trans women met the medical guidelines that the governing bodies of their respective sports set forth, which is why they’re both allowed to compete and, in most cases, have the support of their peers. And despite all the concern-trolling about “fairness” by people who last took a biology course in secondary school, there isn’t a single trans woman at the elite level who is consistently beating her cisgender counterparts, not one.

In conclusion, most of what you said is devoid of real-world significance. I recommend getting a job, or finding a hobby, or simply touching grass. Do something to divert this obsession you have; it’s rotting your brain.

That’s because the majority of (rational) people know that neither of these things are happening to any meaningful degree.