Re:Web3 is centralized and inefficient
by eternityforest on Wednesday March 23, 2022 @06:54AM
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I suspect a lot of that is driven by a small number of privacy advocates, and I really don't like the extremism.
There are people who, if they had their way, would probably ban or highly regulate CCTV cameras.
And somehow, after all these years, right to encrypt and right to use anonymity routing is still under attack at times.
The previous approach to internet privacy assumed it was a public place. The current assumptions are totally unprecedented, they are basically trying to make every interaction not only private but as confidential as a therapists office.
And, even beyond that, they want to eliminate things that even possibly could be used to violate privacy, removing features rather than allowing opt-in, only allowing a weak revokable consent to data processing, etc.
I would much rather they apply a targeted approach of ensuring privacy is always available to those who want it, without trying to eliminate public digital spaces as a category.
There are people who, if they had their way, would probably ban or highly regulate CCTV cameras.
And somehow, after all these years, right to encrypt and right to use anonymity routing is still under attack at times.
The previous approach to internet privacy assumed it was a public place. The current assumptions are totally unprecedented, they are basically trying to make every interaction not only private but as confidential as a therapists office.
And, even beyond that, they want to eliminate things that even possibly could be used to violate privacy, removing features rather than allowing opt-in, only allowing a weak revokable consent to data processing, etc.
I would much rather they apply a targeted approach of ensuring privacy is always available to those who want it, without trying to eliminate public digital spaces as a category.