Yes but again it's not about what you prefer. Children don't typically have access, nor interest in accessing, the dark web. The dark web is for specifically determined people who have a singular motive to get something they can't get on the regular internet.
There is never going to be any scenario where a discussion in any nation's government which is summarized as 'well we might as well just let it out in the open'. Right now, as long as they have the ability to hunt down and shut down things, they will continue to do so. I know from friends using the dark web that various sites are frequently shut down there and so it's constant whack-a-mole to new places, so you can't find anything reliable because as soon as you start to trust them, they get shut down by the FBI or whatever.
If the option to remove no longer exists, then they're just going to find a way to outright block it like China does.
If somehow the tech manages to get over that, it'll be outlawed and enforced not to use it, and if that doesn't work, they will just continue to battle it and develop tech against it for eternity.
Give me a single country where you think any standing leader would even remotely consider such a phenomenon to spread uncontrolled. If you can do that then maybe the rest of the world might progress their thinking about the subject in 50, 100 years.
And if you can't think of an example then, well, it's time to start accepting Hive or anything similar will never be mass adopted for more than the time it takes for any government to notice it and write legislation against it
This isn't darkweb stuff, this is Facebook, dropbox, instagram as well. It is quite incredible what is apparently out there.
This isn't my argument at all. My argument is that it is already out in the open to a large degree, but very little is actually being done.
The blockchain records text, not images. Links lead to hosting services that are centralized.
It seems that you have misunderstood what I am trying to say. Fair enough.
The problem the governments will have for regulation is of course, it will just keep shifting form. Whether people will be happy with that or prefer Facebook, who knows. I don't think in the near term there will be mass adoption, because people prefer convenience. This includes not having to deal with the discomfort of having to handle how fucked up parts of society are.
These people remove millions of content every single day, I think I saw somewhere a million accounts daily. Yes, it still pops up, but at least they can take action. I dunno about you but I find it exceptionally difficult to find anything illegal as a casual consumer. I can't just google pedo porn, or join a bomb-making facebook group.
As above, a lot is being done. It's a never-ending battle obviously, but not something anyone is willing to resign on.
that's the main thing. In the current status quo, things can be done, and are being done. And these centralised companies are still being held increasingly accountable; somebody goes to congress and represents the company, action is taken. Laws are written.
Blockchain removes all that, nobody is accountable anymore. It's a true wild west where rather than 1 million accounts and uncountable amounts of content gets removed, zer0 anything gets removed.
Like you say, people prefer the convenience of not having to deal with it. And I suspect that will always be the case