1y ago

the Nostr guy totally isn't a nazi, how dare you! he's just an extremely interested reader of a nazi

www.businessinsider.com

Jack Dorsey gave $10 million to a project run by an anonymous dev — who turned out to be a follower of a fascist 'guru'

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1y ago

Nostr dev built websites for nazis - and Jack Dorsey gave him $10 million

www.businessinsider.com /jack-dorsey-fiatjaf-nostr-donation-2024-6

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Before he died in 2022 after contracting COVID-19, de Carvalho — known as Olavo — praised Brazil's military dictatorship, claimed that Pepsi-Cola was flavored with stem cells of aborted fetuses, preached that tolerance for homosexuality was "incompatible" with democracy, and had an office in Virginia decorated with portraits of Confederate generals.
Wait, run that second one by me again
- It's a whackaloon claim that had been circulating for a while.
  
  JFC every day I learn something terrible
- The third one is the one that baffles me. The first is fash shit as is the fourth, and the second is bonkers but it’s chain mail style bonkers, but the third, these are unrelated issues. It’s like saying that letting people be left handed is incompatible with having clean running water
  
  I mean ...
  No, I don't know that atheists should be regarded as citizens, nor should they be regarded as patriotic. This is one nation under God.
  -- allegedly, President George H. W. Bush (though he denied he said it)
- without looking that nostr dude up, €10 that he likes these yahoos https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tradition,_Family,_Property
- Tired: bragging about how you always knew the true face of evil because you’re just more tuned in than other folks.
  Wired: Sharing valuable, documented, normie news stories about how crypto is tied into crime and grossness at every level.
  Inspired: Mocking an extreme-fasting, psychedelic-chugging weirdo for giving millions to a fascist fan of a dead guy who believed there’s aborted fetal material in pepsi and who was an AIDS and Covid denier who died of, shock, Covid.
- oh absolutely, i did a whole post on it here
btw, congrats to BI on another immaculate totally-not-nazi dox, which has many totally-not-nazis from bitcoinland up in arms. Why, anyone who spends their time being extremely into batshit insane Nazis and writing about how they think their social network needs Nazis could be doxxed - anyone!
Nostr (without Zaps) is a cool technology but everyone around it has very interesting ideas. I may be biased because I liked the predecessor tech, Secure Scuttlebutt before that sunk into the depths.
- Any platform or "tech" developer by cryptogoons cannot be trusted.
- what happened to ssb
  
  @skillissuer As far as I can tell it's withered on the vine. its client apps haven't been updated in years save for one, which is transitioning to different protocol anyway.
This is the best summary I could come up with:
In his quest to support alternative social-media platforms, Twitter's cofounder Jack Dorsey unwittingly funded a developer who's a follower of a Brazilian fascist, according to archived webpages and business records.
The funding, which supported the development of the decentralized social-media protocol Nostr, comes as Silicon Valley's rightward political drift has become more apparent and as some in tech's elite push back against what they perceive as overreach in censorship and diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives.
Before he died in 2022 after contracting COVID-19, de Carvalho — known as Olavo — praised Brazil's military dictatorship, claimed that Pepsi-Cola was flavored with stem cells of aborted fetuses, preached that tolerance for homosexuality was "incompatible" with democracy, and had an office in Virginia decorated with portraits of Confederate generals.
As Fiatjaf, Parra told Forbes that his political views were shaped by the laissez-faire Austrian school of economics and his entrepreneurial parents' negative experiences with government regulation in Brazil.
Parra was frustrated by what he saw as Twitter's increasing censorship of users and wanted to build a decentralized protocol that would allow people to easily take their social-media profiles and followers to other networks if they disagreed with a platform's content-moderation policies.
On a podcast last year, Parra, as Fiatjaf, mused about the likelihood that "Nazis or racists or whatever" could see Nostr as a home for hate speech because the nature of the protocol means it has no centralized content moderation.
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