(A recent post I made for other platforms.) We have all seen it: -->Fake News ---->Biased News ------>Misinformation -------->Disinformation ---------->Fabrications ------------>Propaganda Those in power want to decide what we see and hear and what we know. How can we hold the government or each other accountable if we do not know the truth? How can we make intelligent decisions without all the facts? Who should choose what you are allowed to say? Who decides what you can hear? All of the questions are important and can be broken down into one word: CENSORSHIP. The Mainstream Media (MSM) companies have all been captured by special interests. The golden age of unbiased reporting of just the facts is long gone and in it's place is a propaganda machine that seeks to control what you know and what you believe. Those in power do not believe that we should be allowed to make up our own minds about important things that happen in the world. They dumb down the news and put their biased spin on it's delivery while leaving out details that don't support their narrative. And here is the kicker, WE LET THEM. The majority of people don't really care what happens or why as long as their boat doesn't rock too much. They like the predictable even if it trends in the wrong direction because it feels safer. “If ye love wealth better than liberty, the tranquility of servitude than the animated contest of freedom — go home from us in peace. We ask not your counsels or arms. Crouch down and lick the hands which feed you. May your chains sit lightly upon you, and may posterity forget that you were our countrymen!” -Samuel Adams I don't feel this way and I have no respect for those who do. We fought for what we have and if we do not fight to keep it, we will lose it. What can we do about it? There are many things we can do. There are many technologies we can employ. Make no mistake though, it will be a fight. Censorship is only partially possible. There are always ways around it. Privately developed open source peer-to-peer distributed communication networks are one way to fight back NOSTR (Notes and Other Stuff Transmitted over Relays) is a good example of this concept. -->NOSTR is a protocol like http (the internet). There are many clients (programs that run on the protocol. Think Internet Explorer, Safari, Chrome, & Firefox) already available with more on the way. Most of the programs are open source and therefore easily auditable. Right now it's biggest use case is as a replacement for Twitter/X but there will be many more uses as the client base matures. It inherently has no corporate algorithms to drive engagement, no shadow-banning, no thought police, or censorship of any kind. Individual clients may institute some of these "Features" but those that the public does not like will die off naturally. The competition of the free market will ensure that new innovations will constantly be emerging. -->The content on NOSTR is distributed redundantly across many nodes in the network ensuring that it survives the takedown attempts of any governments or other powerful organizations. Unless the internet itself goes down, you will still have access to everything that anyone posts. -->Every post is cryptographically signed to verify the identity of the originator. This is important because your reputation and body of work will not be subject to takedown orders. It also means that whatever you post is out there for all time, so think hard before posting something that could get you in trouble. If an investigator has the time and resources, then they can probably track down the origin of any particular post. There are ways around this but they would only work if there is zero connection to you, your email, your ISP, your physical location, your router, or any of your electronics or their locations. In this day of ubiquitous GPS, cell connection, wi-fi scanning, and facial recognition that is harder than you might think. But that is a different subject for a different post. We are talking about censorship here, not privacy. -->On the subject of tracking what you look at, they can't. They can't stop you from seeing it, and they don't know what you have seen. Because of the open source nature of most of the clients, software designers, hackers, and anyone else who has the knowledge can look at the source code of the programs to verify that there is no spyware or other malware present. This is huge. It means that any attempt to spy on you using these programs will be quickly discovered and fixed or warned against. This will make censoring your speech and your receiving of speech much harder. -->If you discover that a NOSTR client has been compromised you can always switch to another and take your identity with you. In the same way that you can recover your bitcoin from a seed phrase, you can also recover your NOSTR identity. -->There is no requirement to verify your identity with government ID. No Know-Your-Customer requirements. No Rules about hate speech, nationalism, religion, opinion, or immigration status. This is unregulated by design. It can not be done. -->All of these things make NOSTR a good information retrieval & dissemination platform. How are tyrannical governments going to stop you from receiving and relaying information that they don't like? Britain? France? EU? Are you all listening? -->Learn more about NOSTR at

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NOSTR is Big Brother's worst nightmare. The State can not control it. The State can not silence it. The State can not stop it. The State Hates It. That is why I like it... #Censorship #NOSTR #Decentralized #FreeSpeech #OpenSource #Cryptography #PeerToPeer #Privacy #BigBrother #Freedom #MSM #Bias #Propaganda #FakeNews #Disinformation