LOL, indeed! The last time I was in the loop, “around” wasn’t even here. It was that other place - wasn’t there some guy called Jeb, with perfect facial hair?

LOL, yes.

I suspect blockchain based social media will do just fine in China, in much the same way that WeChat and Weibo have done in the mainstream space - by cooperating with the government as much as is necessary

Yes and no. You need some way to acces the steem chain, and if every website and/or dapp that allows you to do so is blocked, then it becomes more difficult for the average user.

LOL, these ones certainly are! (You’re welcom 😊).

Looks like we were right about that.

I am far from convinced that revocation of birthright citizenship is the answer, but I do appreciate that this is a situation that is going to require governments and corporations to reasses their strategies.

I don’t always see things exactly the same way as @aggroed, but he’s got my vote.

The ethics of designing systems where people are only instrumentally valuable (i.e.: valued only for what they can do for the network) rather than seen as beings with intrinsic value that deserve to have

Yeah, that’s what I thought. I still think the existence of services to create anonymous accounts on Steem (not to mention the relative lack of censorship) render it incompatible with those regulations.

In light of the oncoming blockchain regulations in China, coupled with recent efforts to make the Steem blockchain more accessible to the Chinese community (and the resulting conversation between WhereIn

WhereIn is based on compliance with Chinese laws and regulations. That being the case, are you verifying the identities of users? If you are sure that you can get hundreds of thousands of people in China

I can’t entirely be bothered addressing this post (which is, as @cheetah notes, lifted from elsewhere). Nonetheless, I’d like to grab a couple of snippets from the post I made on ONO just after I was

Lol 😂!

I think there is a lot to like about what’s been described here. However, I am a little curious as to whether the new blockchain regulations coming into force in China on February 15 will have any impact

I tried to read this, but I’m too drunk. TLDR; rules..blah blah.. judges.. blah blah, ugh. I am happy that this is still going though - ignore the hostility, that’s just the Bacardi/ Sauvignon Blanc/ whatever

Great discussions. I’m glad to see that these conversations are still happening. As it happens, I’m in total agreement with you regarding bidbots, merit, and how the large stakeholders are largely responsible

Well, they will be coming into force soon enough, so I guess we will see.

I’ll be very interested to take a look at the app. Having a bit of contact with the ONO team, I am aware of some of the obstacles that social media dapp development (and blockchain projects in general)

If it is interest from within China having this impact, then I wonder if it is avoidance of the Chinese blockchain regulations (coming into force on Feb 15) that are a factor. I also wonder if a significant