jack@vu44.UUCP (Jack Jansen) (01/12/85)
Since I am strongly opposed to *any* form of moderation/censorship/
call-it-whatever-you-want that covers all of the net (as opposed
to mod.stc-c,
especially when it is concentrated in or around one place,
which lives beside net.lang.c), I though of the
following scheme.
Before you can connect to stargate (as a *sender*) you have to sign
a contract, that makes you responsible for all news to goes
to stargate through your site.
Now, when a site wants to send it's news via stargate, it starts
asking it's neighbours to sign a similar contract *with them*.
For the neigbours that have signed, news is forwarded, for those
who haven't, it isn't.
This has the following consequences :
1. Every article has someone who is responsible.
2. There is *no* centralized control. Every site only deals with
it's neighbours.
In my opinion, especially (2) is important, although the scheme is
invented to implement (1). I think that the lack of a centralized
control (if replaced by distributed control) is something that
will make the net much more robust, much more democratic, and
less likely to be "taken over".
(In case you're interested, *yes*, I like distributed systems, and
*yes*, I am an Anarchist).
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