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How to think about censorship on a decentralized social network

The protocol should aim to be like Bitcoin and Ethereum.

Self-hosted clients are free to have zero censorship.

Hosted clients will have some level of censorship—likely too aggressive of a word in most cases, can use algorithm and/or moderation. Probably less than the average web2 purely centralized platform.

Max censorship is going to be on someone else's website, e.g. a blog comment where they are free to delete it completely.

I think Dan is right about more than we give him credit for because it’s sometimes kind of annoying that he is right, but  it’s accumulating and we’re cooking and idk just let it ride?

makes sense when you look at the protocol like roads
- the protocol serves as infra to connect and enable movement across a network
- there are different types of roads — highways, streets, alleys, and private roads (each designed with/for different speeds, capacities)
- states add additional rules (which vary from state to state)
- private roads also exist and are built on the underlying protocol

protocol: farcaster
state: farcaster client / other client
private roads: apps built on the protocol