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Re:One Woman's Dangerous War Against the Most Hated Man on t... by fallingOff on Saturday November 23, 2013 @10:29PM (#6788581)
If you trust in the feasibility of anonymous currency and anonymous internet hosting/browsing (we are close to both already via Tor and Bitcoin/blind mixes), then get ready for a world with assassination markets. It really doesn't matter what you think about it.

I see a number of advantages to de facto anarchy, Hunter Moore getting offed is only one.

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Re:One Woman's Dangerous War Against the Most Hated Man on t... by taybin on Saturday November 23, 2013 @11:22PM (#6788707)
You're so cyberpunk! You think the world wouldn't react to an assassination market? You think the internet wouldn't be changed to disallow such a thing? Think again.
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Re:One Woman's Dangerous War Against the Most Hated Man on t... by fallingOff on Saturday November 23, 2013 @11:36PM (#6788739)
No, I don't think anyone will be able to stop the proliferation of anonymous networks and currencies.

I think there will be negatives in that world too. The whole thing is too big for me to even reflect on. I'm not a cyberpunk.

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Re:One Woman's Dangerous War Against the Most Hated Man on t... by dinkumthinkum on Sunday November 24, 2013 @02:33AM (#6789025)
Certainly not that fact that they are unstable and large institutions with real money would not back them?
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