Re:Few people know that Google voluntarily removes some sear...
by avianlyric on Friday June 11, 2021 @05:13PM
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It may not be able to remove it, but it certainly can make viewing, storing or disseminating it illegal and punish those that do.
Ultimately a legal system is how a society controls a governments monopoly on violence. A legal system can remove almost anything if it really want too, by virtue of the fact that it can send big men with guns to destroy whatever physical manifestations of the thing exists.
Of course there are practical limits to this power. But that’s never stopped a government before.
Re:Few people know that Google voluntarily removes some sear...
by jefftk on Friday June 11, 2021 @09:37PM
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You can do that today: it is possible to embed arbitrary information in a bitcoin transaction. For example, look at the message section https://chain.so/tx/BTC/27daac15b942454b32f913a41633151163d1...
I don't know of any situation where someone has used this to dox someone, but nothing prevents it.
The legal system has its own faults of course. It's administered by fallible governments and can have individual bad actors. But could a legal system expect to exert control over a decentralized system like a blockchain?
Put another way, if there was a "crypto twitter" clone, and someone posted revenge porn or personal information about someone (home address, let's say), wouldn't that post be forever embedded into the blockchain? Would a legal system ever be able to remove it?