Yeah, I am sure that the courts will put everyone in jail for making evil blockchains lmao. The blockchain is evil, it robs people of their money, blockchain must be put to the death, while we built our better blockchain. Lmao, they will win over all the loser like you who think that the mafia is a correct analogy for a social media platform being regulated.
What you don't understand is that eventually that technology will be taken, the governments are not going to allow anyone but themselves to run the monetary system in the world, anyone moving forward to build opposing monetary blockchain systems will go to prison, one right after the other, they will find a way.
Except the only way is to break the cryptographic secret key which would take hundreds of years on the most advanced computers WITH an exploit and otherwise would take millions of years on the most advanced computers. Except that you would need to understand that to regulate something that has a verified and correct record for all to inspect is redundant, the system is built in already. And even when you regulate one, 3 more will spring up: OPEN SOURCE can be forked as many times as people wish, AKA google Torrents.
The analogy about the mafia was that they decided to set up their own distribution and protection system which required others to pay into it from their profits. They tried to control the flow of goods and services. Yes it was not technology linked, of course, but it shows you what happens when other forces try to set up their own system over the governments.
Except that one was Illegitimate and Illegal and the other is Beneficial and Utilitarian. You see the problem of trying to say that nothing is untouchable because the mafia got touched. Because the mafia was doing something against the law: EXTORTING PEOPLE, not paying their dues to Cesar, and murdering on whatever day they felt like. It had nothing to do with it being "not technology" linked because it was about the fact that you are saying "beware the mafia got regulated" when you tried to cast shade on steem and the technology behind it.
You sir can sometimes be a ordinary foolish one, yes you will not stop everyone but you will stop the vast majority and that's what will limit the power behind unregulated blockchains/crytos. What happened when people started pirating music?...did the music industry sit there and say it's such a huge and uncontrollable situation that we can't handle? No it did not. It started arresting the little johnies stealing their music and prosecuting them. What happened in our state after our governor upped taxes on cigarettes and people started ordering them from out of state on their computers? Did she just say well it's just so vast and wide a problem we can't get a grip on it...no she didn't, she went after them and filed charges against them. You see your problem is, and from being on here I can see why because there is no lack of people like you, that there may be people who want to rebel and will give up life and liberty for their cause but the very vast majority of people won't and they will just go with the flow, because they are content with what they got not what they won't have when the government gets done with them.
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You won't stop anyone. Saying that you will doesn't make it true, any more than saying that it's logical to argue about the actions of one actor in a system that completely allows and accepts those actions as true, valid, and sometimes even acceptable (freedom of expression), as the slipery slope downfall of a technology that makes REGULATIONS THEMSLEVES redundnat by design, while the platform that is built on that technology takes it upon itself to make sure through numerous means that government censorship canot happen (and believe when I say that regulations of any kind are governament censorship prima facie evidence.) In other words idiot are going to idiot.
You are comparing something that has a long precedence of legality with something that makes regulations themselves redundant, do you realize that? You're comparing the mafia to a legitimate, beneficial and COMPLETELY LEGAL standpoint and cautioning about being untouchable because look at the mafia. And do you know what happened with pirated music? It's still being pirated, did government regulations stop it at all? NOPE. Dream On.
And I bet that people stopped buying cigarettes online then LMAO. Either way you'd think that you'd realize that Being Flagged is never ever in any kind of scenario ever going to be a reason to regulate steem(not the front end, steemit), let alone blockchain.
Idiots going to idiot. People want to rebel but they don't, even though there's no lack of people that want to rebel, because most won't, because they don't want to rebel, because they are scared of the government being done with them.
I say Expatriate now you spineless idiot that hardly uses any sense when rubbing his nogging for some intelligence juice. Declare your Political Status as something OTHER than a SLAVE, aka Citizen, look up the term in a legal dictionary and an actual one and then read the Declaration of Independence and declare your own independence as a Free, SOVEREIGN, and Independent people (NOT A CITIZEN!) and start your education because you've abused logic the whole conversation, and you've abused sense by spreading FUD, FEAR, UNCERTAINTY, and DEATH.
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