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Maybe make this a blockchain project instead. Videos of cops doing bad things should be decentralized, non-deletable, and optionally anonymous.
by dheera 5y ago
Maybe make this a blockchain project instead. Videos of cops doing bad things should be decentralized, non-deletable, and optionally anonymous.
- rubyist5eva 5y agoSounds pretty abusable to me..
- dheera 5y agoMaybe the cops should stop abusing citizens then.
- rubyist5eva 5y agoSo abusing innocent cops just doing their job is just collateral damage?
- rOOb85 5y agoHow would posting videos of good cops doing good things be "abuse"?
- rubyist5eva 5y agoBecause not every video has full context and not every use of force is unjustified?
- ironmagma 5y agoMore that a non-deletable video storage system will probably accumulate lots of spam.
- asteroidbelt 5y agoCops would be abused and cops abusing citizens are different cops. There's no group police guilt. Good cops should not be punished for the deeds of bad cops.
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- dane-pgp 5y agoUnfortunately, you probably need to add "and true" to that list, which makes the "non-deletable" requirement less clear-cut. There is no algorithm for truth, so in practice you need a way of allowing groups to form consensus about the validity of claims relating to pieces of data in the system. A claim might be "The image with hash ABC123 is a deepfake." It might be possible to layer a system with that amount of nuance on top of a blockchain, but you need to be really careful that your system won't end up making the world much worse before it has a chance of making it better.
- FreeSpeech 5y agoBelievable deep fakes, at least currently, cannot be created instantly. Blockchain guarantees whatever footage is on chain existed at the moment it was added and hasn't been tampered with since.
- dane-pgp 5y agoThere are a lot of reputationally damaging images you could create for which it is not possible to determine the date when they were supposedly taken just from looking at them. If you know that a specific cop is going to be at a specific location at a specific time, you could create the deepfake in advance and add it to the blockchain when they show up.
- asteroidbelt 5y agoIs video deletion an issue? I don't recall any episode where videos of cops abuses were had to be taken down. It is opposite every time, each video becomes highly viral and reposted to hundreds of services.