mordaunt on Nostr: Censorship requires coercion. Everything else is just preference. An individual ...

Censorship requires coercion. Everything else is just preference.

An individual blocking, muting or filtering is an enforcing their property rights.

A power group using coercion to unilaterally block, mute or filter is a violation of property rights.

The mere act of saying "I don't want to see this" is not coercive, and thus not censorship.

Now, for Bitcoin, if a network of people voluntarily decide to block, mute or filter (at the mempool, or consensus - it doesn't matter) that is also just an enforcement of property rights at a group level.

No coercion involved, just an amalgam of individuals enforcing their property rights.

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