RE: France and Facebook announce partnership against online hate speech – POLITICO
As free speech gets tighter and tighter, places where it remains free will become the collection site for the "deplorable" opinions. This is something that we're going to need to come to grips with.
Consider video sharing sites that are open, censorship free, and distributed. In my opinion, BitChute seems the best of these, but it's full of less than mainstream views, some of which boarder on what would qualify as hate speech on YouTube and elsewhere.
Although I'm not thrilled with sharing a platform with many of these video, I recognize that in the world today wanting to live free sometimes means sharing a resource with those I disagree with.
Tangentially, since HF20 now makes the Steem blockchain editable, do you think it will it stay censorship free forever? When the censors own the physical network, as they do in China and Europe, will Steemit someday be forced to bend to their requests?
To my knowledge, there’s never been a claim from either Steemit, Inc. or any top witness that the Steem blockchain is either censorship-free or censorship-proof. As far as I know, it’s always been framed as censorship-resistant.
I did notice, but until HF20 censorship, other than flagging, was not possible.
Similarly, I discovered that DTube isn't distributed. The word "distributed" is woven all through their site, but when you get down to brass tacks, their site is "based on" distributed technologies.
I haven't really decided how I want to invest my efforts. I've always working in digital media on the grounds that they were highly temporal, but in my lifetime we're going to see the end of printed media. Video seems to have the best shot at being accessed in modern times.
I thought only users could delete their own content. Can the witnesses now censor people?
No, not yet, or possibly ever.
You bring up an excellent point and one that I've thought about with Steem before. Those who want/expect it to go mainstream seem to have no concept of how most of mainstream cannot handle Free Speech, unpopular views, unfair flagging and many other things that are inherently part of a free population.
Is the blockchain editable? I'd say you can edit comments and posts in the blockchain BUT the original post is still in the blockchain. Only the edited version is shown to users of Steemit, Steempeak etc.
My understanding is that part of the HF-20 was to allow for it to become editable,although not by the general users. I might be wrong.
Well I think anyone can edit their own old posts. Not sure who other would be able to do that, as there are no moderators or such.
I see this is true. I'm pretty certain that until just now I had never found this possible. I know that I could edit within the 7-day window, but the older posts were locked.
For me this is actually pretty good news. I want to create a structured blog using Steemit and this will allow me to link together multiple posts.
Unfortunately, this does open the door to potential censorship from the administration. Lets see how firm the owners of this community are when the push comes to shove.
Growing up in the 1970s and '80s I had always taken for granted that freedom of expression was the bedrock our civilization was founded upon, but in recent years I've become increasingly concerned that these freedoms are not as solid as I had once believed.
Well I'll just repeat this, there is no administration who could edit your post unless you've given your keys or password to them.
If the post editing from "administrators" would be possible, I'm assuming they could have done it in the past during the 7 day edit window.