Re: <nettime> accelerating eats the world

[Carsten Agger <agger@modspil.dk>]

On 20-03-2018 22:43, Morlock Elloi wrote:
> Heavy involvement of technology in social interactions keeps producing 
> new challenges, that someone needs to deal with. That someone is 
> getting more and more busy.
>
> The latest event is discovery that someone was/is burning child 
> pornography into ... blockchain. To be more specific, into Bitcoin 
> blockchain: https://fc18.ifca.ai/preproceedings/6.pdf
>
> As everyone knows, the blockchain is immutable and lasts forever.
>
> Possession of child pornography is widely classified as felony, 
> usually with no exceptions for 'accidental possession'.
>
> This means that something has to give: either possessing Bitcoin 
> blockchain is a felony (those images will *never* be removed), or 
> inadvertent possession of child pornography is not a crime (which will 
> give rise to new child pornography storage medium: blockchain.)
Or, given that a majority of stakes on the blockchain *can* change 
history, and a majority of stakes with very strong financial interest 
(as in who's already wasting most electricity) might want to keep their 
toys, these images *will* be removed - along with forever removing all 
credibility of blockchain as an "indelible" or unchangeable public ledger.
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