Anonymous speech has long been a US tradition. Alexander Hamilton wrote most of the Federalist Papers under the pseudonym, Plubius. The Bill of Rights was adopted because a group of anonymous writers wrote about the dangers of a central government. The first Amendment to the Constitution of The United States of America reads: "Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances." This is the essence of freedom folks. Legal immigrants are being deported for asserting..."the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances." What the fuck? Anonymous speech is important. It's not just about LARPing anymore. People in the United States of America are being arrested for speech. That's unbelievable. First they came for the Tornado Cash deveopers and I did not speak out-- Because I was not an etherereum user. Then they came for the Samourai Developers and I did not speak out-- Because I was not a privacy advocate. Then they came for the Legal immigrants... This is not TDS. It is about the freedom of speech. It's about the Bill of Rights and the tendency of executive power growing more and more after each administration. If our government will not grant our right to free speech, then we must speak anonymously. That's what makes #nostr so special. No emails. No phone number. No KYC. No getting to the El Salvadorian Gulag for writing. "If two parties have some sort of dealings, then each has a memory of their interaction. Each party can speak about their own memory of this; how could anyone prevent it? One could pass laws against it, but the freedom of speech, even more than privacy, is fundamental to an open society; we seek not to restrict any speech at all. If many parties speak together in the same forum, each can speak to all the others and aggregate together knowledge about individuals and other parties. The power of electronic communications has enabled such group speech, and it will not go away merely because we might want it to." Eric Hughes, A Cypherpunk's Manifesto The freedom of speech is fundamental to an open society. Those of us who wish to have an open society NGMI on corporate platforms. Anonymous speech on a public protocol like nostr is a way to keep privacy, while maintaining the power of "...freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances."