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> This is blockchain trying to dream up a problem for publishers which those publishers don't think they have. Fair enough, it was just an example... maybe a b

> This is blockchain trying to dream up a problem for publishers which those publishers don't think they have. Fair enough, it was just an example... maybe a bad example of when public trust is needed for something. But, that level of trust and audibility would be nice in this era of conspiracies and fake news. I remember watching CNN on 9/11 and they reported that Flight 93 was shot down over Pensylvania. Maybe that was bad reporting, maybe it was accurate. But, now I can't find that footage anywhere. I would love to find that footage now. Find out exactly what they said. Find out who their source was. Find out if it was bad reporting with bad sources, or find out if it was something more. Without that footage, it's just hearse and I'm sure we'll never know the truth about it now.

TheDong 8y ago
If only there was a group of people dedicated to archiving content... I dunno, maybe archive.org (aka "The Internet Archive")? They even have a CNN section including a full recording of their broadcast on the morning of 9/11 [0]. I'm not going to waste the time watching this to see if they miss-reported some detail or not because I've got better things to do. I don't see how blockchain helps here still; the problem with storing video is that copyright is complicated and there's a lot of it which costs a lot to store, not that we don't have the means to store and audit it. > that level of trust and audibility would be nice in this era of conspiracies and fake news Being able to see changes to articles doesn't actually help with those problems. Better journalistic practices help. People thinking critically helps. Removing the absurd click-bait headlines we've ended up on might help. Making news not be for-profit might help (related to the former). Changing the format of the fake news doesn't make it any less fake. It seems like blockchain is being used as this idealistic thing which surely, if implemented, would not suffer from as many or more flaws than the status quo, when in reality no blockchain based thing has reached mainstream usability or mainstream users yet (arguably excepting bitcoin). [0]: https://archive.org/details/CNN_20010911_130000_CNN_Live_This_Morning https://archive.org/details/CNN_20010911_130000_CNN_Live_Thi...

TheDong 8y ago

If only there was a group of people dedicated to archiving content... I dunno, maybe archive.org (aka "The Internet Archive")? They even have a CNN section including a full recording of their broadcast on the morning of 9/11 [0]. I'm not going to waste the time watching this to see if they miss-reported some detail or not because I've got better things to do. I don't see how blockchain helps here still; the problem with storing video is that copyright is complicated and there's a lot of it which costs a lot to store, not that we don't have the means to store and audit it. > that level of trust and audibility would be nice in this era of conspiracies and fake news Being able to see changes to articles doesn't actually help with those problems. Better journalistic practices help. People thinking critically helps. Removing the absurd click-bait headlines we've ended up on might help. Making news not be for-profit might help (related to the former). Changing the format of the fake news doesn't make it any less fake. It seems like blockchain is being used as this idealistic thing which surely, if implemented, would not suffer from as many or more flaws than the status quo, when in reality no blockchain based thing has reached mainstream usability or mainstream users yet (arguably excepting bitcoin). [0]: https://archive.org/details/CNN_20010911_130000_CNN_Live_This_Morning https://archive.org/details/CNN_20010911_130000_CNN_Live_Thi...