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A partial distributed solution would be for trusted sites to vouch for a hash of the video file, and the browser to be configured to flag or filter untrusted co
by hirundo 7y ago
A partial distributed solution would be for trusted sites to vouch for a hash of the video file, and the browser to be configured to flag or filter untrusted content.
E.g. NYT, the DNC, Pelosi's own site, etc., would flag a hash of a file as valid. Those sites would be aggregated into a web of trust. Users subscribe to nodes of that web, e.g. I trust reporter A, celebrity B, newspaper C, advocacy group D ... and their trust webs out to a depth of X.
Is there anything like this in the works? Kind of a DNS service for propagating networks of trust ratings?
- ng12 7y agoCorporate censorship built in to my browser? I'll pass.
- TimJRobinson 7y agoYou'd decide who you trust.
- TimJRobinson 7y agoI'm working on a design of a system that does almost exactly this. I'd also be interested if anyone else is working on it. Where you can not only trust sites but individual people too. The core issue I've come across is that it would make cults happen more easily.
- chillacy 7y agoI’ve thought of it but it doesn’t allow news sites to remix the content into edits. Maybe if you did some sort of content based hashing which is sensitive to playback speed and pitch but not added compression or cropping?
- codyb 7y agoIt’d be interesting if there was a feature which would let you generate hashes from time series. You could specify what second or millisecond and duration and the trust web could provide the hashes for those segments. Memoization might help although if it’s to the millisecond maybe not.
- tqi 7y agoWouldn't something like this further polarize the web? ie what is to stop Alex Jones from setting up his own node? Or what if the RNC and DNC mark the same article about climate change as fake / not fake, respectively?