RE: Is Steemit A Dragnet?
There is no alternative to STEEM. There are alternatives to STEEMIT. Such as busy.org, esteem, etc.
They all look at the blockchain and you are correct that it is transparent and easy to see but really it is not STEEMIT that is transparent. It is the blockchain. This is good, and bad if you are worried about dragnets.
Yet using the internet itself is mostly dragnets all over the place. Unless you go only to encrypted services and sites, you can potentially be exposed.
It is not worth focusing on this dragnet aspect in my opinion. Any of us could end up in trouble so we could waste a lot of time trying not to get in dragnet and thus be silenced. Or we can choose not to speak, because then they can't dragnet us. They are fine with that. Silence is consent.
Mainly I wanted to just correct what you were saying and point out there ARE alternatives to STEEMIT on the STEEM blockchain. There are no alternatives like STEEM yet, but there are blockchains capable of hosting such a thing (EOS) and hopefully one of them will take off at some point.
Thanks for this. As the intelligence agencies around the world are rolling out dragnets this still means that we would need an alternative for STEEM. If STEEM and dragnets fail to respect basic privacy laws STEEM is most likely doomed anyway.
The Dragnets of the intelligence agencies will detect this fault and say: STEEM does not respect our national laws. and they close the door on STEEM.
UNLESS they enjoy the lack of privacy for their own evil purposes. So either way we are screwed and the only solution is to actually fix this...
This is a catch 22
If we choose not to speak then we cannot use Steemit and we can not earn STEEM as it requires us to be social.
thats quiet a few nails in the Steemit coffin... And to me it looks like steem needs to get an upgrade.
Pioneers will own the blockchain
The thing about steem. It is a blockchain not owned by a centralized agency. It is also based on open source code. So it would difficult and near impossible to insure it is completely shut down. That is one of the reasons people want decentralized things.
They could target the websites that allow you to view the blockchain, but those too are open source (at least steemit is) and you could spin up another website to access the blockchain almost anywhere.
So this would be one of the more difficult things in existence for them to just SHUT DOWN. Just like they can't shut down bitcoin.
They could make it difficult to use it, but to completely eliminate it would be difficult.
This is assuming it is actually setup like I think it is. :)