jleger2023 on Nostr: Absolutely. You have the right -- and obligation -- to choose who you do business ...

Absolutely. You have the right -- and obligation -- to choose who you do business with. However, neither you nor I have the right (nor the obligation) to tell others who they can and cannot do business with. If they make a poor decision, they will suffer the consequences and -- hopefully -- learn the lesson that teaches them not to make that same poor choice again.

The past 3 years taught me that censorship is never the right answer. *Never*. However well-meaning, it will always be used by the truly evil to serve their own desires and cause harm to the masses. Does that mean there will be inevitable casualties? Yes, sadly, it does. But that's the price of freedom.

On the other hand, if people *choose* to opt-into block lists and that kind of thing -- fine. Those blocks should not be imposed on everyone, however, because that once again places the power of censorship into the hands of someone else. The power to censor and block belongs in one place and one place alone: our own hands. Never -- *never* -- in anyone else's.