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The point on topic is that people must pick one: 1. allow encrypted anonymous communication and the ability to use that to defend democracy 2. disallow encryp
by lrvick 3y ago
The point on topic is that people must pick one:
1. allow encrypted anonymous communication and the ability to use that to defend democracy
2. disallow encrypted anonymous communication and the ability to get away with sharing deepfake nudes
Both of these are bad, but one is clearly much worse than the other.
Anyone calling for steps as drastic as internet censorship to stop one comparatively minor issue are clearly unaware of the consequences of that road.
- ChainOfFools 3y agoOr the other option which is the much less glamorous route of improving the visibility, accountability and transparency of centralized control, rather than writing it off as a lost cause from first principles. This is especially relevant given that every decentralized system is actually an illusion, a merely temporary state of transition from one centralized regime to the next.