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freedom of speech is a cliché. it cannot arise a priori in a world where there is a huge gap in educational levels.

That's make sense. 🤔

Everyone was born with the ability to have free thought. Free will. Everyone can be an independent thinker if that person wants to be. The sad part is that most people don’t utilize what they already have. It’s easier to be intellectually lazy, compliant, and follow the masses. It’s harder to have an independent thought that questions/challenges authority, do something different, and stand on principle. Add in public shaming, guilt, censorship, imprisonment, etc. and the average person will just “go along”. Those in control know this. And use it as a form to exert more control. Until people realize the power lies within their own free will, they will continually give away their power to those in control. Free will = choice. There is power in choice. Everyone has the power to choose.

This

Profound.

Free speech and free thought are part of a feedback system, you can't view them in isolation as you seem to be suggesting, they are prerequesites for the possibility of one another.

Very much indeed

When people have a distorted view of what is normal or acceptable they place boundaries on what they are willing to consider. 1. Censorship of content. 2. Self censorship of speech. 3. Self censorship of thought. 4. Limited future outcomes. This is the matrix in a nutshell.

I am suddenly reminded of Orwell and his Thought Police cracking down on thoughtcrime…

just go outside

Free thought you say? We're working on bringing knowledge content to nostr. We hope to enable permissioned and permissionless collaboration between groups. There's also a level of navigability and organization afforded by nostr that hasn't been exploited yet. 1) youtube videos converted into articles, using the transcript partitioned by youtube chapter and then uploaded to be navigated by other users. (near completion) 2) nostr devs putting their code on a nostr knowledge base and then new nostr devs learning by looking at implementations similar to what they are working on. https://wikifreedia.xyz/nkbip-02/npub1m3xdppkd0njmrqe2ma8a6ys39zvgp5k8u22mev8xsnqp4nh80srqhqa5sf

@jack Hey Jack and everyone!—I was truly inspired by these words earlier today so I wrote this article on Medium, referencing your note. Let’s get Nostr to the people! Feel free to share! ✊🌎 https://medium.com/@penglunds/its-not-about-free-speech-free-thought-is-at-stake-605e19e7df0a

The power brokers are working hard at convincing us there is no free will. With no free will, there is no free thought. If you don't believe in free will, you give up on thinking for yourself and yield to false (fiat) authority. With no free thought, free speech is neutered.

Edgy

An interesting thing here is, that distraction itself, is what hinders free thought. View quoted note →

So true! Biden says "ban RT" and Meta bans RT #nostr and #bitcoin is hope!

I don't think free speech is a distraction. That's a complex problem - where's no free speech, no free will. Another words, I want to say something (that is my will) but I can't View quoted note →