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Re:Member: Decentralized Twitter alternative, uncensorable, ... by helsinkiandrew on Monday January 11, 2021 @04:07AM (#25726489)
As soon as this contains some illegal content - child pornography, violent/obscene content law enforcement will start going after anyone hosting a mirror and the ISPs/Hosting providers they are using, the whole thing will crumble like Napster.
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Re:Member: Decentralized Twitter alternative, uncensorable, ... by nintendo1889 on Sunday January 17, 2021 @06:00AM (#25809765)
twitter and reddit are full of this
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Re:Member: Decentralized Twitter alternative, uncensorable, ... by retpirato on Sunday January 17, 2021 @06:24AM (#25809876)
Not to mention anti-Semitic tweets, & in the past Isis accounts, who were shutdown by a "3rd party".
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Re:Member: Decentralized Twitter alternative, uncensorable, ... by dcntrlized90 on Monday January 11, 2021 @04:50AM (#25726771)
The Achilles heel of all these services

In the US it’s illegal to provide communications equipment or service to terrorists

Sure, support decentralized chat services where terrorists are moving to avoid Twitter

Enjoy having the FBI come to your door if they find out you have nodes on those networks

Trusting people you don’t verify is never a good idea. Building a protocol that verifies computers but not the user of the computer is insane

Oh yes, nice math you got there. But who is really on the other end?

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