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Social media websites aren't private. I think in numerous court cases (at least in the US) even email is considered public. So, with that said, a DLT (dist. l

Social media websites aren't private. I think in numerous court cases (at least in the US) even email is considered public. So, with that said, a DLT (dist. ledger tech; i.e. bitcoin) is a great solution for the problems facing a publicly facing company.

sp332 8y ago
There's a weird loophole where law enforcement can get your emails in certain cases without a warrant. It's not the same as being public. https://www.cnet.com/news/doj-we-dont-need-warrants-for-e-mail-facebook-chats/ https://www.cnet.com/news/doj-we-dont-need-warrants-for-e-ma... Anyway I can't understand what the use case would even be here. You need FB to publish their rankings publicly which doesn't need to be decentralized, or you want each person to have their own rankings which don't need to be distributed?
- heimatau 8y ago
  I don't think publishing their rankings will help. The use case that I think is: A competitive marketplace to compete for the best use of encrypted data. Where each data point and evaluation has a 'cost' to the system and each algorithm competes and entirely based on pseudonyms. Since how we perceive 'trust' is etherial/intangible/ever-changing. I don't think the solution is an easy one to create but I do think the building blocks to them are (no pun intended).
  - sp332 8y ago
    Best use of encrypted data? What does that have to do with ranking news organizations?
    - heimatau 8y ago
      One must think differently if you wanted to use a DLT/Bitcoin solution. It's not simply just a ledger. I'm talking about every data point that facebook has, to be hashed and competitively manipulated in a global market place. Trust is very relative but using a bitcoin-like solution would allow for the market to compete for the better solution, each and every day. Facebook's authoritarian solution won't last forever, nor should it; allowing competition through FB's data could be a way that FB stays in the limelight.

sp332 8y ago

There's a weird loophole where law enforcement can get your emails in certain cases without a warrant. It's not the same as being public. https://www.cnet.com/news/doj-we-dont-need-warrants-for-e-mail-facebook-chats/ https://www.cnet.com/news/doj-we-dont-need-warrants-for-e-ma... Anyway I can't understand what the use case would even be here. You need FB to publish their rankings publicly which doesn't need to be decentralized, or you want each person to have their own rankings which don't need to be distributed?

heimatau 8y ago
I don't think publishing their rankings will help. The use case that I think is: A competitive marketplace to compete for the best use of encrypted data. Where each data point and evaluation has a 'cost' to the system and each algorithm competes and entirely based on pseudonyms. Since how we perceive 'trust' is etherial/intangible/ever-changing. I don't think the solution is an easy one to create but I do think the building blocks to them are (no pun intended).
- sp332 8y ago
  Best use of encrypted data? What does that have to do with ranking news organizations?
  - heimatau 8y ago
    One must think differently if you wanted to use a DLT/Bitcoin solution. It's not simply just a ledger. I'm talking about every data point that facebook has, to be hashed and competitively manipulated in a global market place. Trust is very relative but using a bitcoin-like solution would allow for the market to compete for the better solution, each and every day. Facebook's authoritarian solution won't last forever, nor should it; allowing competition through FB's data could be a way that FB stays in the limelight.