Quote from: D-Lux on October 09, 2016, 11:04:21 PM

Cool. I'm personally still struggling to get out of the "horseless carriage" mentality in imagining what could be done with Factom. What comes to mind now are mainly the systems and processes that already exist, but that could be made more efficient / secure / etc by using Factom. But I think things start to become interesting when imagining what new processes / systems could be created by using Factom, which weren't previously possible.

Actually I suppose this is the (conceptual) challenge for a lot, or most, cryptos ... Maybe I'll ask Paul during the Q+A. Though if anyone has any ideas about what new systems / processes (not really sure of the word, even) could be created with the use of Factom -- that didn't exist before, b/c they couldn't --I'd be curious to hear.

It's a pretty crappy example on my part, but gets the idea across.

As I said earlier about Turkish censorship on twitter, which coincidentally blew up only a few hours later, now sites hosting the leaked Turkish govt docs or even linking to them is blocked, Google Drive, Onedrive, Gibthub are all blocked, solely for storing the files or magnet link

This is what tyranny looks like in the digital age. The emails are damning, but governments control the backbone of the internet, they censor because they can, and it now affects millions of innocent people who are simply trying to go about their lives without even caring about the documents, software companies are making alternate location plans after github was censored. It's far from reasonable for a modern democracy and especially a western ally.

I very much dont support this new phenomenon of wholesale leaking, its easily manipulated by nation-states (the WADA leaks were proven to be partially falsified and regarded as payback by Russia), but proper whistleblowers deserve protection in a civilised society and any claims should go through the scrutiny of the justice system, that's what's separates us from the terrible countries on earth, and it's really sad how the world seems to be turning it's back on justice as though the means justifies the end, history has shown repeatedly how this turns out.

If Maidsafe were up and running Turkey would struggle to hide this, but as it stands it's very easy for any government on earth to block whomever's IP address they want to. When large corporations and monetary threats are involved it's even easier.

Simply posting the torrent link here means bitcointalk would likely be banned. You can't claim to stand for your principles yet watch others down the street to do otherwise without saying a thing.