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Re: [ANN][DRK] DarkCoin | First Anonymous Coin | First X11 | First DGW | DarkSend+ Is Live!
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Sniggly
on 02/09/2014, 19:18:49 UTC
I understand your point of view. To further save us typing back and forth, it boils down to you valuing free speech above moral implications vs. me applying a morality that is greater than free speech.

A quick note, I believe free speech in and of itself is a moral issue as well.
No it's more complex than that. The big issue is "Who decides what's cp and what isn't?" That's where censorship comes unstuck because someone has to apply a ruling based on their moral position and "their moral position" then becomes the interpretation for everyone else, which takes us right back to centralisation and control.

I'm almost gob smacked we're needing to have  this conversation. The technical complexities of filtering a "DarkTor" are absurd in the extreme. The legal/responsibility and actual "who/when/how" of this censorship is a whole other consideration that takes the concept to even greater levels of infeasibility.

Honestly, you're in the wrong place if you can't understand just how incompatible is the notion of excluding certain types of content from a private/anonymous network. As cyanez has pointed out, the concepts are mutually exclusive and would completely kill this project if attempted.

^This.  THIS.  Now the tap root is being exposed.  In all instances of compulsion and censorship there ends up being a 'deciding authority' that is by definition (and self evident)....singular.  This is to be avoided at all costs.  Some would counter with, "we'll just set up a board of people....".  When that happens accountability goes out the window....with those making the suggestion that it would be more fair and objective.  But they forget the role of every single persons philosophy and derived ethical system.  Now the problem exists on a much larger and exponentially harder to define scale.

Darkproton - I wasn't trying to back you into a corner.  I think you are very capable of articulating yourself.  I was attempting to get you to place, with some finality, just exactly where the moral obligation you mention is born and whom carries the bulk of the that burden.  Answering those questions should lead you somewhere.