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> If you make a transaction and everyone moves onto a different chain in order to effectively cancel your transaction, that's censorship of transactions. If y
by splintercell 9y ago
> If you make a transaction and everyone moves onto a different chain in order to effectively cancel your transaction, that's censorship of transactions.
If you don't like what NYT says, and you cancel your subscription and subscribe to WSJ (and let's just say that millions of people do the same thing, possibly due to some event), have you effectively censored NYT then?
The fact is, censorship has a meaning, and the way you're using the language, abuses that. We didn't censor Ubuntu when because of their unity decision lots of people moved to Linux Mint or to other distros.
We didn't censor Digg when it lost a huge traffic to Reddit after the v3 changes.
Uber wasn't censored when after the controversial immigration changes by Trump, people started to delete uber app and ride Lyft.
Censorship is when an organization forces your speech from all effective expression.
Will ETC be invoking censorship when they hard fork to eliminate the upcoming Ice Age baked into the Ethereum protocol?
- adamrezich 9y agoYour analogy breaks down because we don't trade newspapers as currency, we consume them for information.
- splintercell 9y agoAnd until 2016 nobody used the phrase 'censorship of transactions'.
- baobabKoodaa 9y agoYour analogies about choice do not really play here. This is about telling someone "we didn't cancel your transaction, everyone just decided to move onto a chain where it doesn't exist". (Also, you are correct that I was abusing the term 'censorship'.)