Decentralized Censorship of Social Media: A Democratic Approach
In a recent post by @heimindanger entitled The Real Truth about Censorship on Social Medias, I read the following words...
Ok @heimindanger, but how to prevent the real bad stuff?
It's obvious we don't want the dweb to be a place for pedophilia, hate-speech or gore contents to thrive. I've been running DTube for 3 years now, monitoring uploaded videos, and checking [email protected] email daily.
... and I thought, what will happen when DTube reaches 10,000,000 users? Hey, there's nothing wrong with being optimistic! How will @heimindanger manage to monitor that many content creators, who will no doubt have among them, some who behave badly?
Then I thought about a post I wrote Troll Hunters: A Community Curator Proposal, and wondered if this approach would be able to help @heimindanger in the future? Or even the present?
I will rewrite here what I proposed, modifying my idea to cater DTube:
- Phase 1: Programmers, who are willing to work with the open source code, would add a new feature to the DTube App: the BLOCK button, which will accompany the SEND DTC and SUBSCRIBE buttons.
The BLOCK button would allow you to block user accounts in such a way that not only do their videos and comments no longer appear to you anywhere on the site, but also your videos and comments will not appear to them either. For all intents and purposes, the Blocked Account does not exist for you, and you do not exist for the Blocked Account. I believe this would be fairly easy to code. I think?
Phase 2: If the feature is added, DTubers can use it to block abusive Trolls and accounts that upload offensive material.
Phase 3: The BLOCK feature will create a transaction on the blockchain that can then be used to recover the data necessary to know who has been blocked, and by how many people. This would allow @heimindanger to better monitor DTubers by watching out for accounts who are blocked in high numbers. Those higher up on the list will risk being collectively blocked to the point that they find themselves with no followers, and no one to follow, apart from other badly behaving DTubers, of course.
In this way, the DTube Community would have a truly democratic tool for cleaning up the bad content and bad behavior, in a decentralized fashion; and @heimindanger could more easily be informed on who needs to be blacklisted.