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How is it decentralized if illegal content can be taken down? It should be impossible for a single entity to do that in a truly decentralized system. It appears

• int_19h 8y ago
  "Taken down" just means that clients get notification that such and such comment is bad. The stock client will remove them and reject them in the future, but there's no enforcement - you can have a client that e.g. completely ignores any such requests. If I understand it correctly, multiple such clients would end up maintaining all those deleted posts in distributed P2P storage, in their part of the network. So, basically, there's an opt-in "Dark Aether".
  • ubercow13 8y ago
    Is there a single master moderator hard coded into the default client with the ability to take things down?