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I don’t understand the popularity of immutability and uncensor- ability. What if someone posts naked photos of their girlfriend on this? Furthermore it says y

I don’t understand the popularity of immutability and uncensor- ability. What if someone posts naked photos of their girlfriend on this? Furthermore it says you can block access to the chain completely do it doesn’t even do what it claims.

klyrs 5y ago
I was thinking about the children™, personally. I wouldn't touch this technology with a 10 foot pole.
dannyw 5y ago
some people believe information should be free, period. There's am argument to be made that the drawbacks of revenge porn are outweighed by the benefits of free access to information.
- endisneigh 5y ago
  you don't need this to have free access to info tho.
- pjerem 5y ago
  > some people believe information should be free, period. There is nothing wrong believing some ideology. However, enforcing your beliefs without caring about consequences is called extremism. You can believe information must be free but acknowledge that it don’t include revenge porn. Or you can act like it doesn’t matter but then, you are a danger for the society.
- timeon 5y ago
  Dystopia is created when context and adaptation is not considered while implementing the Utopia.
judge2020 5y ago
Every technology has pros and cons. The pro here is that some blog about corruption can't be knocked offline by some government authority lest they block the entire network, which would be a problem if any businesses use such a decentralized network for their own means. The con is that everything is immutable and unchangeable, and that has consequences - for reference, despite that the story about CP being on Bitcoin is false[0], it's definitely possible if anyone ever wanted to spend a few hundred thousands in gas fees to store an arbitrary jpeg on ethereum. 0: https://news.bitcoin.com/no-isnt-child-porn-bitcoin-blockchain/ https://news.bitcoin.com/no-isnt-child-porn-bitcoin-blockcha...
- tablespoon 5y ago
  > The pro here is that some blog about corruption can't be knocked offline by some government authority lest they block the entire network... Let's not kid ourselves with the idea that's even likely to happen. The main use case of stuff like this is for people to say stuff that would get them banned on Twitter, and most of that consists of being an asshole or spreading lies. The blog about corruption will be put up on real Twitter, where the eyeballs are, and preserved by getting scraped by some organization like the Archive Team and uploaded to the Internet Archive.

klyrs 5y ago

I was thinking about the children™, personally. I wouldn't touch this technology with a 10 foot pole.

dannyw 5y ago

some people believe information should be free, period. There's am argument to be made that the drawbacks of revenge porn are outweighed by the benefits of free access to information.

endisneigh 5y ago
you don't need this to have free access to info tho.
pjerem 5y ago
> some people believe information should be free, period. There is nothing wrong believing some ideology. However, enforcing your beliefs without caring about consequences is called extremism. You can believe information must be free but acknowledge that it don’t include revenge porn. Or you can act like it doesn’t matter but then, you are a danger for the society.
timeon 5y ago
Dystopia is created when context and adaptation is not considered while implementing the Utopia.

judge2020 5y ago

Every technology has pros and cons. The pro here is that some blog about corruption can't be knocked offline by some government authority lest they block the entire network, which would be a problem if any businesses use such a decentralized network for their own means. The con is that everything is immutable and unchangeable, and that has consequences - for reference, despite that the story about CP being on Bitcoin is false[0], it's definitely possible if anyone ever wanted to spend a few hundred thousands in gas fees to store an arbitrary jpeg on ethereum. 0: https://news.bitcoin.com/no-isnt-child-porn-bitcoin-blockchain/ https://news.bitcoin.com/no-isnt-child-porn-bitcoin-blockcha...

tablespoon 5y ago
> The pro here is that some blog about corruption can't be knocked offline by some government authority lest they block the entire network... Let's not kid ourselves with the idea that's even likely to happen. The main use case of stuff like this is for people to say stuff that would get them banned on Twitter, and most of that consists of being an asshole or spreading lies. The blog about corruption will be put up on real Twitter, where the eyeballs are, and preserved by getting scraped by some organization like the Archive Team and uploaded to the Internet Archive.