Re: Re: [Tech] Crazy idea: How trust in darknets enables secure democratic censorship

On Tue, Jul 12, 2005 at 12:49:37PM -0400, Evan Daniel wrote:
> On 7/12/05, Matthew Toseland <toad-EI5O+8PHWbJeeLb3ft/[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> > If the majority is wrong, it will disaffiliate from the minority. We are
> > not talking about global voting here, we are talking about each node
> > deciding on the basis of adjacent, trusted nodes. Yes there is some
> > influence as far as majorities go, but the likely scenario is that the
> > network splits into the two groups.
> 
> Doesn't this mean that in the normal course of events, the majority
> keeps the main contiguous network, while the minority ends up with
> many tiny islands (potentially only 1-2 nodes) instead of an

Why would the subgroups be so small? It is likely that the larger
network is built of medium sized darknets that have linked up...

> "alternate" network?  If that minority wishes to repair their network,
> then they have to find each other through other, presumably more
> vulnerable, channels, right?  It sounds to me like this has potential
> to enforce groupthink through network value effects.
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