Censorship is not a Future Problem
In wake of recent events pertaining to the deplatforming of the President of the United States on both Facebook and Twitter, as well as Amazon, Apple, and Google’s take down of alternative media sites utilized by his supporters, the future may seem bleak to some right now and excessively positive to others depending on whether they associate with team Red or team Blue. But politics aside, what humanity just learned is that not even the presumed most powerful man in the world is safe from being censored on the internet as it exists today.
Maybe you’re okay with this because of how you feel about this specific POTUS, but you probably would not be okay with this same action if this handful of humans from Silicon Valley had a shift in ideology and started deplatforming your representatives of choice, or YOU, next.
The cat is out of the bag. These centralized tech authorities have now shown their power and ability to shape human discourse over the internet to their liking. Rendering your political views useless if they don’t align with theirs.
Given the rest of the world is now subject to the wishes of just a few big tech monopolies, the future of Democracy would be looking quite dismal if humanity was not already in the process of building the escape route from this dystopian slope we’re slipping down. Fortunately, collective humanity has been working to decentralize the internet, taking the control out of any one person, corporation, or government’s hands and replacing it with immutable, consensus-driven code. Or, in simpler terms, blockchain technology enables a decentralized, censorship resistant future for the internet.
Today, Bitcoin, Ethereum, Litecoin, Monero, DAI, and a handful of other quality blockchain projects are proving to the world that they can be entrusted with over a trillion dollars of value without a single leader in charge of the networks. Optimistically, as this technology continues to develop, it will permeate outwardly from solely monetary networks and eventually bring the openness, permissionless, and politically neutral features that decentralized blockchains make possible to the rest of the internet, including social media.
This means that although we just witnessed possibly the most Orwellian action ever perpetrated on the internet to date, Censorship is not a Future Problem of humanity so long as we stay vigilant and continue to advocate in favor of decentralized blockchains that are agnostic to tribalism and politics. The power will be put back in the hands of each and every individual and the future remains bright if we do this right.
