The dark web is for specifically determined people who have a singular motive to get something they can't get on the regular internet.
This isn't darkweb stuff, this is Facebook, dropbox, instagram as well. It is quite incredible what is apparently out there.
'well we might as well just let it out in the open'.
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.
If the option to remove no longer exists, then they're just going to find a way to outright block it like China does.
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