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They don't want to track people who will use those decentralized services. Simple as that. They want control over majority. Nothing else. Any legal business wi
by _tw9j 6y ago
They don't want to track people who will use those decentralized services. Simple as that.
They want control over majority. Nothing else. Any legal business will be required to do what law requires them and it will affect every citizen.
I have no hope given the stupidity of my country to do something against acts like [1] personal data protection law or the decryption act. US going towards that road only means it's easier to justify our country and many others to go even higher. Soon a mandatory camera inside house for legal citizen.
1] https://carnegieindia.org/2020/03/09/what-is-in-india-s-sweeping-personal-data-protection-bill-pub-80985 https://carnegieindia.org/2020/03/09/what-is-in-india-s-swee...
- mratsim 6y agoBanks will love that. As would EU, South American and Asian businesses, they would VPN to another continent VPN to finally have nested encryption for key stakeholders communication.
- dilettantism 6y agoAbsolutely. Anybody who wants to skirt this can simply use an instance of any number of open source end-to-end encrypted apps and servers. This is not for catching sophisticated criminals.
- tharne 6y agoNailed this. This is about controlling the 99% of folks who aren't going to take the extra step of using a decentralized service. Think about how hard it is to get friends and family members on board with something super easy to use like Signal. Open source decentralized services are DOA for the overwhelming majority of people.
- noworriesnate 6y agoMaybe the way this plays out is it becomes very difficult for companies to innovate in communications, so open source peer-to-peer tech will end up dominating. Of course then they'll probably legally attack the open source model.