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by bckr 1 day ago
I think we have to do something this extreme. We have to give the system a total makeover. Somehow we also have to keep it from being fully centralized and have the big brother problem on the other side. Unfortunately these two goals are difficult to get through at the same time, with the system that we have.
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If major states like California and New York pass it, and spam basically dies in those states, it wouldn't surprise me if it spreads across the country.
Assuming the nature of the spam and how it makes money.
They are impossible.

You can't make a system that can force bad actors off the system that can't also be used to force politically undesirable actors off the system.

Cue the crypto bros touting their decentralized spam-detection blockchain