Re:We need a censorship-resistant truth protocol – I have th...
by jfengel on Monday June 30, 2025 @02:48PM
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Just dump it on the blockchain. That'll get it replicated all over the place, and it'll be impossible to remove.
But that's not your problem. You don't just want the information out there. You want everybody to pay attention to it. And that's a much harder problem. They don't actually need to eliminate the information. They just need to bury it under a billion other pieces of information.
Those don't even need to be lies. The best lies are just shaded, cherry-picked versions of the truth. Lies are lazy propaganda -- though admittedly, people seem perfectly content to accept that too, even when a tiny bit of effort would contradict it. Your "truth store" doesn't do any good if people aren't going to use it.
But that's not your problem. You don't just want the information out there. You want everybody to pay attention to it. And that's a much harder problem. They don't actually need to eliminate the information. They just need to bury it under a billion other pieces of information.
Those don't even need to be lies. The best lies are just shaded, cherry-picked versions of the truth. Lies are lazy propaganda -- though admittedly, people seem perfectly content to accept that too, even when a tiny bit of effort would contradict it. Your "truth store" doesn't do any good if people aren't going to use it.