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RE: Will Online Erasure Be a 21st Century Form Of Damnatio Memoriae?

in #debate • 8 years ago

Chinese Google is doing political censorship on chinese history, so its's a real problem (I think chinese people could solve this by using TOR). If you believe Snowden, Google is cooperating with CIA also.
As you wrote, it's natural for corporation to collude with governments instead of fighting them.

So blockchains and cryptography are part of the solution (for both privacy and censorship problems). Governments could make laws to protect privacy, but this is beyond our will.
I am more scared about violation of privacy than virtual damnatio memoriae. Personally I try not to give my real name to FB or Google, but it would be easy for them to link my accounts to my real identity with little effort.

The optimist in me says awareness and technology will save us.
I think Steemit is a step in the right direction.

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    Thanks great points. I think China is a brilliant example.

    So blockchains and cryptography are part of the solution (for both privacy and censorship problems). Governments could make laws to protect privacy, but this is beyond our will.

    Yes and I think governments aren't interested in privacy because it could make things harder for them particularly FBI and investigative agencies.

    The optimist in me says awareness and technology will save us.

    Yes that is my hope.

    I think Steemit is a step in the right direction.

    Exactly.