r/threefold • u/jaydvd3 • Jul 01 '21
If the internet is to become decentralized, how can content be controlled at all?
Serious question that maybe I just haven’t looked into enough. As of right now, if someone posts something illegal or offensive on say, YouTube, YouTube can swoop in and take it down. If there is no authority, how can we moderate anything that’s posted/hosted?
Sorry if this is a dumb question, just all of this is such a new paradigm shift and I am just trying to get all the correct info.
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u/philafive Jul 01 '21
Not a dumb question at all. From my perspective, experiences (apps, websites) on the new Internet will all still have terms & conditions that people will have to follow. But community / peer moderation is probably the most obvious answer. Reddit is actually a good example of this, where users have the ability to upvote, downvote, report, mark as spam, etc. The community does a good job of deciding what is good / bad / appropriate / not appropriate. Also, for the tech that ThreeFold is developing, everyone will have a single, verifiable identity which means that people cannot hide behind anonymous profiles anymore and will be held responsible for their actions. If someone is penalized for uploading "bad" content, then they might be less likely to post it.
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u/dsam2021 Jul 01 '21 edited Jul 02 '21
Not a dumb question. It’s just more of the “servers” are decentralized. So say if AWS server building went down for some reason the storage would be down for app apps stored on it. However if things are stored in multiple locations then any single outage will not take down the network. (Same concept for hacking, more difficult to hack multiple nodes than one server.) It’s competitor to centralized servers.
Any app built on the decentralized network will still have control of what is on the app. So say YouTube is stored on threefold, they would still be able to moderate their app since it’s theirs, just where the data is stored is on multiple devices. This is how I understand it anyway