Ethereum Q&A: Governance Scalability and Asymmetric Power
Channel: aantonop
Date: 2019-03-18

Thoughts on the state of electoral politics? Currently dealing with the scalability problems of democracy in a connected transnational sphere. Why should we wish for aliens or government backlash? Are there "left" versus "right" political leanings in the governance debate? How do we fix the problem of 'bad speech'? Why is the asymmetric force of cryptography and technology so powerful for sousveillance?

Study referenced: https://web.archive.org/web/20140701011759/http://www.princeton.edu/~mgilens/Gilens%20homepage%20materials/Gilens%20and%20Page/Gilens%20and%20Page%202014-Testing%20Theories%203-7-14.pdf

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0:00 Is there anybody who you might support for the presidency of the United States in 2020? If not, I wonder if there is anybody in the electoral space that is interesting and worthy of our support?
7:13 These social media platforms that spring up have a lot less governance and become really weird, far-right shit holes. I was wondering, how do we stop that? How do we encourage people to use those platforms and stop them from being weird reactionary places?
11:51 I don't know if it was the pufferfish or the story about Coventry, but it made me think about the relationship between money and violence or war. What happens when unstoppable code is applied against us by an adversary using violence means?

This question is from a talk which took place on February 16th 2019 at the EthDenver event in Denver, Colorado: https://antonopoulos.com/event/ethdenver/

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