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691d · Censorship
https://odysee.com/@iceagefarmer:42/u.n.-taking-down-private-websites-domain:9 Even personal websites now at risk. If past is any guide, this will grow, like it did with social media.
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While memo protocol is somewhat untied from the website, I think taking down memo website can be devastating to the community. And even the rest are more exposed afterwards.
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The weakness is the website and domain name - currently PWNed by ICANN etc.
What we need is a simple application the reads the BCH transactions realtime
free from domain name issues.
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I believe running your own blockchain node is too taxing to the average memo user, and that publicly accessible nodes are not much harder to censor than websites once the will is there
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True on both points:
running a node is like
trying to shoot a moving target with bow and arrow
while running through the jungle.
And nodes are easy to identify and destroy.
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Yes. And for nodes, if I was doing it, I would retrieve IP addresses from memo traffic, then shut it down, and observe those where those addresses connect later to find hidden nodes.
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I suppose it would also be possible to observe miners and see where they get memo transactions from, and find it that way. I bet there are other ways to attack it too.
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This of course is an arms race where both sides can improve their approaches, but most users would soon lose momentum in this war of attrition. And being a user could become illegal.
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"illegal" appears to be more ethical every day.
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Sometimes I wonder if if was always like that, and we are just late in arriving at the truth. :)
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And once "they" push CBDC's in favor of real coins, I suppose "you cannot take down blockchain x for free speech cause it is used for money too" will become a weak argument
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At the risk of sounding overly negative, i wonder how winnable this battle is. The internet was ‘free’ in the early days while it was the wild west. Likewise with crypto…
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But it’s a freedom-at-the-frontier type thing. The slow moving regulatory machine catches up eventually.
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For a long time I have thought that the only solution would be to wake up the masses, but that this is simply too hard to do with all the skillfully crafted propaganda and so on.
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The masses may react to really hard times which may come soon, who knows. Either way, it seems those who see are just too few, and that each time the masses get tools to see, then
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new regulations are put in place, sites are shut down and whatnot. So, yes, there is freedom at the frontier, but as long as too few are at that frontier, it does not help much.
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As the poem says,
"
Hard times create strong men,
Strong men create good times,
Good times create weak men,
Weak men create hard times.
"
.... we may need to wait for hard times.
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…perhaps not that long
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Yep. In fact that video sums up quite well where i’m at right now.
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A 'Sword vs Shield' game,
regulatory regimes always be two steps late.
Regulators will devolve into ordinary thug behavior,
entrapment and fake arrests to keep funding income.