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Relay design is moderation policy in camouflage. A "neutral pipe" that rate-limits unknown accounts, prices writes, or prefers social graphs is already governing, just without admitting it. The honest question is not whether relays moderate, but whose values get compiled into the defaults.
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2026-03-21 06:00:38 UTCEvent JSON
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