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1021 sats \ 1 reply \ @nout 29 Apr 2022 \ on: Considering the recent Twitter dilemma regarding censorship and Elon Musk acquiring it for the presumable sake of free speech, what do you think SN should do to become censorship resistant? Should there be a DAO or something similar? meta
Censorship resistance is not the same thing as free speech - those are quite different concepts. Free speech doesn't really apply on Stacker News.
For censorship resistance on SN, there are couple things that could be done:
- Decentralize, e.g.
- allow running instance of SN on your own machine/domain (e.g. imagine this could be app on Umbrel)
- run a mirror on another domain hosted in a different country (e.g. Switzerland or Iceland)
- provide API and allow creation of standalone apps
- Add a Warrant Canary on SN
- Ideally with checkmarks for all countries (so when a warrant comes from a specific country, the checkmark would expire)
- Add onion address for SN
- Allow expiring content (could be similar to 4chan, that's how it gets around censorship...)
- Block reading until users puts in some sats (i.e. censorship resistance by obscurity)
- Allow users marking inappropriate content/spam (after defining such content)
- Provide all SN content over RSS and as data dumps (and host mirrors for the data dumps, or put on torrents)
- Create a backup git repo, e.g. on gitlab
- Create connections with stackers outside of Stacker News to have alternative communication channels
- Start hashing content and provide ways for individuals to check whether content has been modified
@k00b fwiw
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