There will be ads on Nostr, but the attention they get will be earned. This WSJ article explains how Duolingo takes this approach on TikTok.

Why Duolingo Has Replaced Many TV Ads With Free TikTok Posts — The Wall Street Journal

The language-learning app now relies more on memes—helping it climb to 20 million daily active users

(That will be my approach for ads as well - put out advertising content people like well enough to follow & share).

Misinformation can cause financial meltdowns… https://www.reuters.com/business/finance/us-banks-rethink-social-media-threat-not-marketing-tool-2023-05-18/ Freedoms come at a price. The question is how to get the most freedom for the smallest price… (and not just have it be freedom for a few). Obama used to say he tried to look two steps out at possible consequences… That’s probably a good thing. But it’s a balance - it’s about acknowledging the downside and saying the benefit is worth it.

What’s with the idea around here that experts aren’t important and don’t need to be consulted? If I wanted Amateur Night I’d walk 2 blocks and go to the Apollo… SMH…

WSJ: "Google Fined by Russia for Failing to Remove LGBT Content"

Google Fined by Russia for Failing to Remove LGBT Content — The Wall Street Journal

The $39,000 penalty also covers the search engine’s failure to take down material on Russia’s war effort in Ukraine

> "The $39,000 penalty also covers the search engine’s failure to take down material on Russia’s war effort in Ukraine…" Who are they going to fine when Nostr fails remove pro-LGBT / pro-Ukraine content?

Just wait until they hear about Nostr! BBC: "Vietnam to crack down on anonymous social media accounts"

Vietnam to crack down on anonymous social media accounts

It's the latest in a series of restrictions imposed by the Vietnamese government on social media users.

> "Unverified accounts on both local and foreign social media platforms such as Facebook must comply with the new regulations." > > "It is unclear how the new measures, expected by end-2023, will be enforced." > > "Laws requiring tech firms like Google and Facebook to store users' data locally were also passed in 2022."

## "LGBTQ+ journalists face high levels of abuse in UK, study finds"

GAY TIMES

LGBTQ+ journalists face high levels of abuse in UK, study finds

LGBTQ+ journalists in the UK face “high levels” of abuse and a majority do not feel adequately protected by their employer, a study found.

> "The research … found that online abuse targeting the sexual orientation and gender identity of LGBTQ+ journalists is now commonplace." > > "More than eight in 10 (82 per cent) respondents shared that they had faced online trolling, while over half (56 per cent) were subjected to homophobic harassment." > > "Many also believe their role to be dangerous, with 76 per cent of those surveyed either disagreeing or strongly disagreeing that media organisations are adequately protecting them from harassment and abuse." > > "Almost three quarters (74 per cent) of the professionals surveyed reported feeling anxiety over the abuse they received." If Nostr really wants to be about free speech, then LGBTQ+ journalists need to feel safe enough to speak here. If bullies control Nostr then there is no free speech here. #LGBT #journalists #FreeSpeech #gay #PressFreedom #harassment #LGBTQ

What I want to know is whether #[0]​ has gotten #[1]​ & #[2]​ onto Bluesky or whether they’re just on Nostr…

I spent the weekend rethinking "NIP-69" that @rabble and I had proposed. Based on some of the comments we had gottten I started with the idea of "labeling" and made the data needed for #ContentModeration just another type of labeling data. That required coming up with a NIP for doing labeling. I made it so you can use _any_ coding system / defined vocabulary. Do you want to tag your posts (or someone else's) with some ISO code, or a GeoNames place ID, or some code from a structured vocabulary like MeSH? Or maybe you have your own defined vocabulary (like I do)… You can do that with what I'm calling "NIP-68". You can see it here…

GitHub

nostr-nips/68.md at master · s3x-jay/nostr-nips

Nostr Implementation Possibilities. Contribute to s3x-jay/nostr-nips development by creating an account on GitHub.

I'm hoping that NIP makes Nostr interesting to the scientific community. (It would be very funny if "the gay porn guy" kicked off the process of getting scientists onto Nostr.) Then… I reworked our NIP-69 proposal so it's just a defined vocabulary for NIP-68 labeling. Actually it's two defined vocabularies. One is somewhat rigid, the other is more organic - anyone can just create a new moderation-related code and start using it. You can see my new NIP-69 here…

GitHub

nostr-nips/69.md at master · s3x-jay/nostr-nips

Nostr Implementation Possibilities. Contribute to s3x-jay/nostr-nips development by creating an account on GitHub.

It does have an impact on how things are done now. It deprecates both NIP-36 and NIP-56 and requires paid relays to accept moderation reports from unpaid users if the content being reported is on the relay. (Without that change relay owners may never know they have illegal content on their relay). Client apps can keep their current "report post" UI (or enhance it with new features), but they will need to change the event that's sent from type 1984 to type 32123. The few apps that are using the reports to filter/block what their users see (like @Vitor Pamplona's Amethyst) may need to make more more substantial changes (but they may want to wait, since this isn't the end of the suggestions regarding content moderation). I'm still discussing with Rabble the best way to present 68 & the new 69 as Nostr PRs, but that will probably get done in the next day or two.

"NIP-69" - which #[0] & I are working on - has made me think about the distinction between #censorship and #ContentModeration. Here's my take on that… It seems to me that censorship is top-down - it's an authority telling you what is (un)acceptable. Some cases of content moderation work the same way (e.g. site owners who are strict about what's on their site), but to me the ideal content moderation is bottom-up. It's you, your friends, and organizations you trust all cooperating to filter out or warn you about content you may not want to see. Unlike censorship, good content moderation is individual. The question is how to achieve that.

GitHub

NIP-68 & NIP-69 - defined vocabulary for content warning & reporting (NIP-36 and NIP-56) by rabble · Pull Request #457 · nostr-protocol/nips

This NIP defines a vocabulary and spec for content that users tag with NIP-36 (Content Warning) and NIP-56 (Content Reporting). To understand why w...