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my sentiments exactly ...
one cannot - and i mean that as an impossibility - to stop thievery or malice or illegal activity in such cases ... impossible ...
there will always be those that use these systems for the bad rather than good ...
why on earth do you think the US always has a 'war' on everything that they cant control ... drugs - poverty - countries ...
its simply due to people not doing the right thing - and that will ALWAYS happen ...
the situation will be simple - not to STOP it altogether ( the project ) but to minimize the 'bad' factor somehow ...
lets see if the project gets a lift off first - before we even look at what needs to be placed on servicenodes ...
#crysx
That is true, I was not meaning that I got problems that crypto can be used to buy illegal things, that is unavoidable. But participating in decentralized storage means we could get the same kind of bad rep as TOR gets. If you run a node, it is inevitable that you have participated in spreading kiddie porn by letting it pass your node. Shit like that will weigh heavily for politicians wanting to outlaw crypto and they will through everything they got at that fact. And people like me with moral issues about it would stay away. But yeah I just felt like tossing my opinion in your faces
It is as you say, unavoidable.
the points you make are fair ... and only the law makers can do anything about that anyway ...
but if 'really' were the case - if that 'really' what law makers and policing agencies were 'really' about - then there would be no way of moving without anyone knowing what was happening ... they would even remove our pockets in our shirts to make sure that 'bad stuff' doesnt get around ...
moral issues are a given - thats just life ... but to denounce a system that could potentially do more good than bad - is not a good thing at the best of times ...
morality itself is a debatable thing also ...
along the previous lines of logic - that would mean that drugs are bad - and therefore the people who do them are bad ... no? ...
the way you see potential issues is justified ... but that is not what the intention of many of the developments are aimed at ...
unlike the people in 'real' power - the devs and community actually are aiming at the good ...
the law makers see nothing more than dollar signs and controlling power ... thats why they do blanket a lot of things like that ... exactly like you suggested - 'its 'bad' porn ( as opposed to 'good' porn?
) and it passed through your node so YOU are responsible for it' ...
that is dictatorship at its best ...
thats why drugs are still around - porn is still around - murder is still around ...
its all about controlling it all - and making a crap load of money while doing it - thats it ... ie - legalizing drugs ( tax) - legalizing porn ( tax ) - legalizing murder ( bali for example ) ...
once these servicenodes get off the ground - morally or not - we will have to decide HOW its all going to be handled and whether the apps that sit on the servicenodes are worth the effort ... which also includes the whole moral issue ... we would never allow a decentralized silk road again ...
would we? ...
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#crysx
