The concept is deceptively simple: political and religious expression/speech is legally protected in many jurisdictions around the world.
There are two facets of the feature that mutually protect each other:
1. The ability to guarantee freedom of speech by hosting it on the block chain;
2. Possibly more importantly, protection of the block chain by having expressions of protected speech embedded in it.
What do you think of the idea of having JD take random lines from its on-site chat as its "CLAMspeech" for the blocks it stakes?
Absolutely.
That way you get a much wider range of "expression" in the blockchain - though some of it may not be the kind of stuff you want preserved forever.
I've asked before and don't think I've seen an answer: are the "expression of * freedom: *" lines a work in progress? Are they templates to be filled in with real statements about each religion/whatever? Because it seems to me that currently the "expressions" aren't actually expressing anything - they're just a list of religions and suchlike.
The initial/default CLAMspeech list should exist in code at the official git repository.
We welcome proposed additions or changes.
We could certainly use ideas and advice is this regard.
This is a much more complex issue than it appears at first glance.
Initially, the idea was to have a much smaller initial list, with the expectation that users would add additional expressions as they saw fit.
Such an activity becomes very difficult, very quickly.
What exactly "deserves" to exist in the list?
Maybe more importantly, who are we to say a given item
doesn't?
Does having a larger (as opposed to empty or small) list provide the opportunity for users to have some degree of psuedo-anonymity and still be able to choose specific items to broadcast?
One option would be provide a sort of feed, similar to some social websites. Users would see a list of previously sent "expressions" and could choose to either disregard them or add them with a simple click to their personal list. A sort of "re-tweet" if you will.
Interesting? Maybe.
Ideas are welcome.
