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This is interesting. What mechanisms do you see enabling this?



Not the GP, but I see it happening with a global, but decentralized ID system. I wrote about a possible design at https://gavinhoward.com/2020/07/decentralizing-the-internet-... .


Interesting. How would that system work for non-trusted people? I see that it would work for family and friends, but how to publish for the general public?

This reminds me that there is/was a company working on blockchain tech for tracking legislation changes.


The point to having the system is that if someone who is a publisher is being censored, they can move their content to another platform and their entire audience knows they moved because their "location" is in the blockchain. That's why being able to store data alongside an identity is important.


Yeah, I got the concept for platform level censorship. If you have adversaries actively trying to shut you down, they can just follow you to the next platform. Government level censorship could still be possible.


Oh, I see. I guess I misinterpreted what kind of censorship you were asking about.

But that also might help combat censorship by governments if you can get your data hosted outside of your country. Not sure how well that would work in practice, though.




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