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whats up with people being afraid of being political. its your duty as citizen to be political. in ancient grece apolotical people were called "idiots". literal

whats up with people being afraid of being political. its your duty as citizen to be political. in ancient grece apolotical people were called "idiots". literally thats the origin of the word.

t1E9mE7JTRjf 1y ago
I think you miss the point. On Nostr because technology is apolitical, you can be anything you want - political or not. A draw for some is exactly that; if they've been de-platformed elsewhere for political views, on nostr that can't happen.
- spiderfarmer 1y ago
  I have never truly seen anyone deplatformed over political views. In the end they were always deplatformed for a lack of decency.
  - Klaster_1 1y ago
    This is authoritarian regime bread and butter. Create barriers that only right people can surmount, ban platforms where prominent opponents publish their media, block sources of income or just outright ban websites and newspapers and TG channels.
  - DoctorOW 1y ago
    This is on front page today: https://www.eff.org/pages/when-knowing-someone-meta-only-way-break-out-content-jail https://www.eff.org/pages/when-knowing-someone-meta-only-way...
  - t1E9mE7JTRjf 1y ago
    what counts as decency is a political view
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falcor84 1y ago
Very interesting, but according to this well-referenced paragraph on Wikipedia, the use of that word was a bit more complex: > It is certainly true that the Greeks valued civic participation and criticized non-participation. Thucydides quotes Pericles' Funeral Oration as saying: "[we] regard... him who takes no part in these [public] duties not as unambitious but as useless" ... However, neither he nor any other ancient author uses the word "idiot" to describe non-participants, or in a derogatory sense; its most common use was simply a private citizen or amateur as opposed to a government official, professional, or expert. The derogatory sense came centuries later, and was unrelated to the political meaning. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Idiot https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Idiot

whats up with people being afraid of being political. its your duty as citizen to be political. in ancient grece apolotical people were called "idiots". literally thats the origin of the word.

t1E9mE7JTRjf 1y ago

I think you miss the point. On Nostr because technology is apolitical, you can be anything you want - political or not. A draw for some is exactly that; if they've been de-platformed elsewhere for political views, on nostr that can't happen.

spiderfarmer 1y ago
I have never truly seen anyone deplatformed over political views. In the end they were always deplatformed for a lack of decency.
- Klaster_1 1y ago
  This is authoritarian regime bread and butter. Create barriers that only right people can surmount, ban platforms where prominent opponents publish their media, block sources of income or just outright ban websites and newspapers and TG channels.
- DoctorOW 1y ago
  This is on front page today: https://www.eff.org/pages/when-knowing-someone-meta-only-way-break-out-content-jail https://www.eff.org/pages/when-knowing-someone-meta-only-way...
- t1E9mE7JTRjf 1y ago
  what counts as decency is a political view

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falcor84 1y ago

Very interesting, but according to this well-referenced paragraph on Wikipedia, the use of that word was a bit more complex: > It is certainly true that the Greeks valued civic participation and criticized non-participation. Thucydides quotes Pericles' Funeral Oration as saying: "[we] regard... him who takes no part in these [public] duties not as unambitious but as useless" ... However, neither he nor any other ancient author uses the word "idiot" to describe non-participants, or in a derogatory sense; its most common use was simply a private citizen or amateur as opposed to a government official, professional, or expert. The derogatory sense came centuries later, and was unrelated to the political meaning. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Idiot https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Idiot