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vincnetas 6 days ago

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.

falcor84 6 days ago | parent | next [-]

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

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t1E9mE7JTRjf 6 days ago | parent | prev [-]

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 6 days ago | parent [-]

I have never truly seen anyone deplatformed over political views. In the end they were always deplatformed for a lack of decency.

DoctorOW 6 days ago | parent | next [-]

This is on front page today: https://www.eff.org/pages/when-knowing-someone-meta-only-way...

Klaster_1 6 days ago | parent | prev | next [-]

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.

t1E9mE7JTRjf 6 days ago | parent | prev [-]

what counts as decency is a political view