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If you're interested in decentralized applications, you need to be paying attention to Ethereum, Whisper, Swarm, and IPFS. The building blocks for what you're describing are being built. It will happen.
https://xkcd.com/927/
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i agree. recently i desired to create an online community for a small game that probably wouldn't have many users or posts. subreddits are fantastic for that type of thing, and i like the ease of use and PRAW, however, handing over all of the community's data to conde nast isn't something i'm interested in. what i'd like is a tool with which to create online communities, which would consist of a message board with up…
Reddit is no longer owned by Conde Nast. It was moved to the same parent company that owns Conde Nast and then spun off. http://www.redditblog.com/2013/08/reddit-myth-busters_6.html
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> "They'll deflect, ignore, and basically try anything to escape the reality - they broke the rules of society and now society wants to punish them." I think most people, criminals or otherwise, understand this quite well. In fact, I'd guess that criminals understand it better than non-criminals. What some people don't seem to understand (or even want to think about) is that the law is often a pitiful and nationally…
People who break the law are criminals, period. It doesn't matter if the law is just or unjust, or whether or not you personally agree with it. The simple fact is that the majority of citizens don't want online drug dealing to be legal, so it isn't legal. Equating drug dealers with Ghandi, MLK and the US Founding Fathers is a stretch at the least and outright offensive at worst. These people aren't making bold politi…
The burden of enlightening someone should never fall upon anyone but that someone. To argue that avoiding imprisonment isn't a burden would be the definition of sophism.
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You seem to be assuming the government wants people to break its laws, so it gets to punish people. It costs the government money to put people in prison; not only the cost of their food, shelter, supervision, etc. but also the cost of removing a taxpayer from the workforce. Furthermore, a democratically elected government that is increasingly imprisoning more and more of its people is not likely to remain popular. I…
People with power almost invariably attended a history class or two sometime in their lives, and remember what can happen to the Marie Antoinette's and Nicolae Ceaușescu's of this world. If you were in power, and you feared civil unrest, it would be in your best interest to establish civil disobedience as the most severe form of legitimate protest. The idea that dissidents should not use violence but should instead s…
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>Anti-drug laws can also be great If we assume a definition of great that allows the following sentence to be true: Racial discrimination can be great.
I'm happy heroin is illegal. Locking people up who use heroin, not so much.
Warning: this opinion probably won't fit into the HN zeitgeist. If you commit a crime online don't be surprised when they seek to gain evidence against you. This isn't a liberty issue. This is a you're probably a criminal issue and law enforcement is coming after you. I don't protect drug dealers in my neighborhood because of their right to free speech and personal liberty so why would I protect these guys? It just a…
This matter is beyond using or selling drugs. The definition of crime is based on a law which isn't necessarily morally right. For example, in my country, discussing LGBT or even marijuana would get you into serious trouble. Hence, as internet users, we should look beyond our time and space, ensuring freedom of speech.
Wow. That's truly sad. I mean, if only talking about the subject already gets you into trouble, I don't want to know how LGBT people in your country actually live.
We always hear about these things in the newspapers and such and it always outrages me,, but to hear it from an actual citizen brings a different perspective, at least for me.
I truly hope this ends sooner rather than later OP.
We (speaking as a netizen) need Usenet 2.0; eg: something that can fulfill the role of reddit that is decentralized/distributed. Perhaps reddit can even transition into being a reader (a la google reader) for people that don't want to set up their own node. I'm not saying that drug discussion is the quintessential act that deserves to be protected, but I am worried that the government has such an easy avenue to get t…
This is a public forum. Hell, one of the users even VOLUNTEERED himself to be interviewed by the users of one of the most popular websites in the world under the topic of what amounts to "I run or help run a drug smuggling/selling marketplace".
What reasonable expectation should this user have to privacy? You can't do all these things in public and then say "well, the government shouldn't be able to look at me for it" - I'd think what he did met the very definition of probable cause.
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I concede. :) I'm surprised so few are being targeted, now that they actually do something about it.
I was actually surprised by the low number as well.
Not sure how willing they will be to hand this over given the recent events surrounding A/Swartz' suicide.
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If you're interested in decentralized applications, you need to be paying attention to Ethereum, Whisper, Swarm, and IPFS. The building blocks for what you're describing are being built. It will happen.
https://xkcd.com/927/
Ethereum is a decentralized, consensus-driven data store and execution environment.
Whisper is a decentralized messaging protocol, which you'd use for data that doesn't require consensus. Consensus is expensive and relatively slow, but communication between parties doesn't require it.
Swarm and IPFS are content-addressable, decentralized file transfer systems. You'd use one of these to store the HTML, CSS and JavaScript that implement an application on top of the other decentralized systems. Or just to store arbitrary static files.
It's hard to shut down a system that lives on thousands of computers and can be accessed by typing the name of the site into a web browser. That's the experience that's motivating people to build these systems, and they're going to change the way the world works.