True, but if that’s all you need, you can just make a regular website, or an encrypted group chat, etc. People facing potential retaliation are not going to share their experiences unless they trust the people running the network. You need centralised trust, which is the exact opposite of what blockchain was made for. The blockchain part would be either redundant or actively counterproductive.
This makes sense, and I’m generally agnostic. But the trade-off with a centralized authority is that the people running the system take on a lot of liability. The good samaritans who do this work currently are very careful, paranoid people. If one has incriminating information about powerful people, there is often a target on one’s back.
Yeah, I definitely appreciate the great risks that are being undertaken, and the need to protect yourself from retaliation by powerful abusers.
I don’t pretend to know the best answer, only that I strongly believe going the blockchain route would be a huge mistake. I don’t think blockchain solves the liability problem, merely shunting it onto the developers and maintainers of the blockchain product, or to individuals whose accusations get leaked. It seems that a better route would be something like Callisto, which anonymously matches victims together using encrypted accusations using a regular app. I’m no expert though, I just really hope that something can be done that meaningfully makes a dent in this problem.
True, but if that’s all you need, you can just make a regular website, or an encrypted group chat, etc. People facing potential retaliation are not going to share their experiences unless they trust the people running the network. You need centralised trust, which is the exact opposite of what blockchain was made for. The blockchain part would be either redundant or actively counterproductive.
This makes sense, and I’m generally agnostic. But the trade-off with a centralized authority is that the people running the system take on a lot of liability. The good samaritans who do this work currently are very careful, paranoid people. If one has incriminating information about powerful people, there is often a target on one’s back.
Yeah, I definitely appreciate the great risks that are being undertaken, and the need to protect yourself from retaliation by powerful abusers.
I don’t pretend to know the best answer, only that I strongly believe going the blockchain route would be a huge mistake. I don’t think blockchain solves the liability problem, merely shunting it onto the developers and maintainers of the blockchain product, or to individuals whose accusations get leaked. It seems that a better route would be something like Callisto, which anonymously matches victims together using encrypted accusations using a regular app. I’m no expert though, I just really hope that something can be done that meaningfully makes a dent in this problem.