Censorship resistance and privacy, are they really mutually exclusive?
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#SimpleX founder Evgeny Poberezkin speaking truth. #Nostr focuses on censorship resistance with privacy as an afterthought. SimpleX focus is on privacy. Do not confuse the two. > **Censorship resistance and privacy are in a contradiction - the more censorship resistant a communication solution is, the less private it is, inevitably.** > > Evgeny Poberezkin image #ikitao #opensource #privacy #nostr #censorship
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waxwing 1 year ago
No they aren't, but the conflict he's talking about is very real, and very often overlooked; people like the concept 'censorship resistance requires privacy so that the powers that be can't see what they want to censor', which is true but is also limited in that those powers may try to force communication, or monetary exchange, through channels not private from them. The dynamic he's talking about is probably best understood by considering the word 'broadcast'.
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Rand 1 year ago
appreciate it waxwing
If not face-to-face, each communication requires an intermediary to store/deliver the message. Censorship resistance, defined as the ability to resist suppression or modification of a message (private or public), could help by eliminating the one point of weakness and thus increasing deliverability and system performance. I think we should first agree on the meaning of "censorship resistence" and "privacy".
Probably Evgeny Poberezkin by “resistance to censorship” refers exclusively to public messages that need to be spread as widely as possible, but this is not the only case.