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I don't think it's a very good idea to record immutably and publicly your "indesirable" status. Sounds like it will just make ethnic cleansing easier

• arif_sohaib 8y ago
  Agreed. One solution could be restricted access. Government of Maynmar not allowed to access this. Same of Houthi and Yemen or Syrian rebels/Assad etc. Idea 2: it could potentially help hold these government's more accountable if everyone in the world has access to a record and thus proof of what they are doing.
• throwaway555555 8y ago
  Ordinarily, I’d agree with this, except to look at how this series of events transpired, one gets the sense that the aggressors in this scenario did not give a shit about identity as they went about (and continue to go about) dealing death (and worse) to pretty much anything in front of them. In this case it seemed to be based on regions or zones in rural territories. Anybody in those towns or villages, was in the wrong place at the wrong time, and no amount information was going to make a difference. I don’t think they were going around, checking names and marking clipboards. By all accounts, there was nothing orderly about this one. Little more than a perimeter walked down to a kill zone. The people that got away had to move fast, and of the ones that made it out of the round up, it seemed to be children and people who played dead. So, add computerized record keeping to the mix. Will it be used to hunt people down? It’s probably a concern worth considering, but really the modus operandi seems to be search and destroy eviction from a territory, to clear out an area, not understanding and targeting network nodes in a constellation of peers.