Beyond Blockchain - Distributed Web
Decentralization and Decency
A talk on the values and goals of decentralizers
After Trump and Parler were removed from a variety of Internet services, decentralization became a new focus of wider discussion. This talk is about our values and goals as a community beyond just "censorship resistance," and how we're solving problems, not creating new ones.
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