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  1. Jan 2022
    1. In Web3 there is no room for “politics” as in spaces where people debate something and try to find a decision. Instead structures are set up in ways that remove that human element by codifying what a structure does in its smart contract.

      Works for software, but not for humans

    2. In Web3, freedom means mostly freedom from restriction. The idea of (possible) censorship ties into a lot of Web3 thinking, and content deletion or restriction is one of the main cases Web3 proponents put forward to argue that the current Web needs to be replaced.

      Sounds great in theory, but what about obvious illegal activity? Same problem Telegram is facing now

    3. Everyone can look at the blockchains and see what the truth is. There is no debate about the truth and no hidden information. Everybody knows the same and can therefore act accordingly.

      Can this result in misuse?

  2. Jan 2021
  3. Dec 2020
    1. I don’t buy it. While a cutting critique of queer commodification might have been part of the idea’s nucleus, the outcome is a commodification itself, objectifying trans people as creatures of deviance, defined by their genitals and suitable only for sexualization or rejection.

      This commodification is part of the universe the game is set in and showing it in the game es exactly the point to show that it's bad.