RE: Some thoughts on the claimed 9/11 hack and removal of content from social media sites.
This was in response to someone trying to post child porn and what I was informed was that it took a super majority of witnesses...
If I recall correctly, I don’t believe any fork was needed to remove child porn. The images aren’t actually stored on the blockchain, only a link to the image that’s stored on the servers for the interfaces. So if a child porn image was posted, the image could/would be removed from the hosting server and the url to it would effectively be dead, so the image would no longer be displayed. The url itself could not be removed from the blockchain without forking out the block where it was stored, but it wouldn’t matter since there is no actual image attached to it or displayed on either the blockchain or the interfaces.
Now, if there actually was a fork that occurred in response to such images, I’d say it was completely unnecessary to do that. I don’t believe there was but I’m not 100% certain.
Thanks for sharing your thoughts @ats-david and also for clearing up some of that that I was wrong/misinformed about.
If you don't mind I'd like to ask you something sort of unrelated to this topic of 9/11 hacking and removal of content as I've been watching some of the stuff happening in the steem culture and some of your comments in the past.
What are your feelings about Whaleshares? I've been meaning to sign up for an account over there for a while but I'm so busy it's been taking me a while to get to it and I'm pretty sure I saw you made an account over there?
Do you think it has a chance or good odds of competing with steem? And are you personally leaning toward another crypto coin like Whaleshares or another social media platform over what's happening on the steem blockchain?
I have not made an account on Whaleshares and will not be making one, ever. I would discourage anyone thinking about joining Whaleshares. I do not trust the “developers” at all, and anyone who decides to use that platform should be extremely careful and probably cash out as soon as any tokens are acquired, no matter the price.
Basically, it’s a shit chain created by even shittier people. Avoid it if you can.
I see! I'm glad I asked you. I'm not sure why I was under the impression that you had signed up. But now that I know that I am much less likely to spend the time to sign up and check it out. Thanks for the info.