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by rgallagher27 1650 days ago
And what about all the legitimate use cases for censorship/banning?

What happens when the chain / ipfs is flooded with immutable CP? Anti-semitic content? Anti-Vaxx disinformation? Revenge-porn? Pii leaks?

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Images/video are trickier since there's strict liability around those in most countries. So that should continue to live on private hosting services.

Other bad stuff could exist as it does today on the internet. You can find all this stuff online by just searching google for the most part. Most people don't want to interact with that stuff, so they would go on curated content providers like twitter that do active filtering of those things.

So close. One day we will think of a use for blockchain besides cryptocurrency. Or not.