Comment by bloqs
2 years ago
This is the same old story though, and nerds dont get this right: what about all the viruses/child porn games and other heinous shit people will host there? Decentralisation is only as good as its moderation and unpaid moderation is a hell of a weak link
The issue is accountability. A big centralised server has accountability built in to some extent, because you can find and sue or jail the bastards that own it. Decentralised, is often conflated with anonymity and hence zero accountability.
But it doesn’t have to be this way. For something like source control, must we have anonymity? You wouldn’t require all that much PII to deter most bad actors, I would have thought. Maybe the PII bits can be stored in a different system that provides cryptographically signed assertions. You remain anonymous, but can assert your identity is stored in X. Law enforcement have the power to recover the PII if there is a warrant. Like some of the proposals for asserted qualifications in Europe and such.
The question is, are emulator authors good actors or bad actors. It is subjective and we should not let Nintendo to decide.