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This seems like an unreasonably difficult project. If you're already aware that reviews on, e.g. Yelp and Amazon are difficult to police and discern the authent
by NoZebra120vClip 4y ago
This seems like an unreasonably difficult project. If you're already aware that reviews on, e.g. Yelp and Amazon are difficult to police and discern the authentic ones, wait until you have positive and negative reports on literally your global state-level threat actors in action. You will be shut down in any less-than-free nation, and you will be under attack by astroturfing and misinformation campaigns like you wouldn't believe.
Now how would you defend against that sort of thing and build a trustworthy database, when your very premise depends entirely on verbal descriptions and hearsay claims with no evidence available or required?
- neilv 4y agoGood point; if you have impact against sketchiness, you draw fire from the sketchy upon yourself. Maybe assemble some trustworthy network of local journalists who can get accurate info, and who can tell you when they cannot get accurate info? And when a place is too hostile to find trustworthy journalists, that alone might make that place a no-go? (You'd still be subject to high-touch compromise in some cases, but maybe not the current problem of automated LLM-powered botnet deluges.) Personally, I don't have the stomach for taking on state actors as adversaries (too lawless and scary), but this is the kind of thing someone who feels nigh-invincible could undertake to "change the world" in a positive and selfless way.