Can the decentralized web help to protect human rights? - Coda Story
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In an age of internet shutdowns, takedown requests and deepfakes, the race is on to create a resilient and verifiable archive for the work of campaigners and citizen journalists
  • @Zerush@lemmy.ml
    2•2 years ago

    I think that decentralized or not has nothing to do with the people which posted in it. There can be the same fakes, extremists, racists or fascists as in the normal network. Human rights depends on the people and the goverments itself, not on the network or communication media they use.

  • @loki@lemmy.ml
    -1•2 years ago

    eh. if the internet is shut down (which happens a lot in countries with authoritarian rule), decentralized web doesn’t do much. we need decentralized communition networks.

      • @Zerush@lemmy.ml
        1•2 years ago

        But not impossible, anyway https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-02180329/document But I think even a totalitarian state prefers to control and filter traffic on the network, before blocking it. North Korea has a local internet, which goes through government servers. Encrypted messages only raise suspicions, follow-ups, infiltrations, running the risk of being blocked or worse. This is why steganography is widely used, to disguise the messages in innocent photos, texts or music, which do not cause suspicion.