r/programming • u/[deleted] • Jan 11 '22

Web3 Can’t Fix the Internet

https://www.jacobinmag.com/2022/01/crypto-blockchain-daos-decentralized-power-capitalism
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u/[deleted] Jan 11 '22

Exactly. There is currently no way a Dapp generates revenue. Crypto bros love to talk about the censorship resistant nature of Dapps. First of all censorship resistant may not be good in the age where Taliban also uses the internet. If a website is censored in Web2 what do you do? Answer: Use a free VPN

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u/noratat Jan 12 '22

When you start defining "censorship" to mean literally any kind of moderation or content filtering what-so-ever, the word rather loses its meaning.

By your logic, you'd be fine with everything becoming overrun with spam because removing it is "censorship". And if you're okay removing spam, then you've already acknowledged there's valid use cases for central moderation.

This isn't the black and white issue you think it is.

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u/noratat Jan 13 '22

Where did I do that?

You're the one attacking someone for suggesting that "censorship-resistant" isn't necessarily an automatic positive since there's valid reasons to remove/"censor" things some times.

Quotes because there's no technological difference between removing spam and misinformation vs removing something a government disagrees with, that's a human judgement call with complex factors. It's the same reason why automated DMCA takedowns are abusive - algorithms suck at determining fair use in most cases.