This is either ignorance or willful misrepresentation. The key difference is that on a blockchain they can't be removed, ever, without invalidating everything that follows in the chain.
There's also very compact but highly illegal data you might want to distribute and make undeletable. Think things like leaked classified docs, doxing of gov't officials or other high-profile ppl, etc.
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I don't think these pose any greater threat with blockchains than they do with any other medium. If anything, a viral leak on Twitter becomes undeleteable, and visible, much faster than on Bitcoin. Your previous point stands though: sovereigns could use such data as a pretext.
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But at this point, I am not worried that states will crack down on the entire area of blockchains because of a few, or actually, just one according to the study, instance of vile material.
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Maybe not. We'll have to wait to see. But I also suspect there will be attempts to manipulate currency through this sort of thing.
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If you can selectively increase perceived risk of participation to particular users or groups of users (e.g. whole jurisdictions), there should be a lot of ways you can profit from that...
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Very few people, even sympathetic, would willingly participate in archiving or redistributing this kind of data until it was already "widely out there", but on a blockchain everyone gets roped into being archivists, for better or worse.
Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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