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I get censoring calls for violence and insurgency... Like at the capitol... Though to be honest idiots at the capitol were stupid many posting their crimes and

I get censoring calls for violence and insurgency... Like at the capitol... Though to be honest idiots at the capitol were stupid many posting their crimes and social media leading to their arrest. Social media needs decentralized with community based censoring let govts police their citizens if they want but leave the content up with disclaimers and such. I think it's more damaging for shady politicians, criminals, etc if their tweets were permanent and there were no delete button... You could add revisions/retractions but can't pretend it was never said by erasing.

ab_testing 6y ago
Sounds good in theory but in practice, if you want to operate in a particular country,you need to abide by the laws of that country. That is what Apple stores all Chinese iCloud data within China and hands over the iCloud encryption keys to the government . Free speech is not that free in other parts of the world .
- gremlinsinc 6y ago
  My point is if it is truly decentralized... As in blockchain or distributed db... Without transaction fees of course... And it's immutable. As in nothing can be deleted. Admins and authorities could probably block display because that's delivered via api, but all messages remain on blockchain or whatever permanently. Addendums could be allowed maybe... From site admins for just that site, DAO team for a sub data item that's linked and always shows with it, or the user themselves could add a retraction, correction, etc... Say under penalty of torture... But the original message and every revision/addendum is public record... Any site pulling from the fire hose can decide which parts of the api to display or they could filter blocked items individually... If there's something really bad like media links to child porn those could be flagged so sites could perma block them.... But all the data is decentralized and ran by a DAO, with a purposes of ensuring transparency in social media.

ab_testing 6y ago

Sounds good in theory but in practice, if you want to operate in a particular country,you need to abide by the laws of that country. That is what Apple stores all Chinese iCloud data within China and hands over the iCloud encryption keys to the government . Free speech is not that free in other parts of the world .

gremlinsinc 6y ago
My point is if it is truly decentralized... As in blockchain or distributed db... Without transaction fees of course... And it's immutable. As in nothing can be deleted. Admins and authorities could probably block display because that's delivered via api, but all messages remain on blockchain or whatever permanently. Addendums could be allowed maybe... From site admins for just that site, DAO team for a sub data item that's linked and always shows with it, or the user themselves could add a retraction, correction, etc... Say under penalty of torture... But the original message and every revision/addendum is public record... Any site pulling from the fire hose can decide which parts of the api to display or they could filter blocked items individually... If there's something really bad like media links to child porn those could be flagged so sites could perma block them.... But all the data is decentralized and ran by a DAO, with a purposes of ensuring transparency in social media.