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[–] jet@hackertalks.com 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I've been thinking about this at depth. I think the public square, as we would consider the free speech zone in real life, is the closest analog to the activity pub feed itself.

As long as people have access to the activity pub protocol, they have free speech. The instances choosing to subscribe or not subscribe to that activity feed is not censorship

So if somebody received a court order saying they could no longer use activity pub, that's clearly censorship.