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If I understand correctly, E2E takes out the group of idiots in the middle, which is the leverage used by demagogues to control the tide of public discourse. Without idiots in the middle, worldviews are shaped by private convo, and thus only organic support for ideas can arise?
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Well you’re conflating the technical man-in-middle of a p2p channel and the middle of the crowd in an open pool medium, but in a way that’s kinda right for both. In the former, idiot-in-middle might archive cleartext insecurely for hackers to steal.
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There have always been ways of increasing the costs of surveillance. They're never perfect tools, but they serve a useful function - providing the choice of privacy for any message worth less to the attacker than the cost of circumvention. Anything worth more ~will be broken
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In practice, I'm not sure when we'll get to a point where Sybil attacks will be necessary broadly - we've got a ways to go before the "internal network" can be not only secured, but virtually impossible for an average user to accidentally unsecure. But I hope we get there 🙂
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I'd heard about some of those incidents, but didn't realize there had been so many 😣 Charisma neutrality may very well open the door to manipulation at lower thresholds of charisma/brow-beating as every "warren" may not have the same level of BS antibodies as a wider whole
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