The need for decentralization of social networks may currently be one of the best usecases for blockchain based platforms.
Following alleged mass manipulation of elections; loss and abuse of of user data; arbitrary censorship, intentional or unintentional, and a potential clamp-down on free speech, regulating the largest social media platforms in the world - the need for decentralized, permissionless, uncensorable and immutable platform, may never has been as evident as it is right now.
Freedom is a right - not a privilege!
Going out on a limb, I would say, that the freedom serving aspects of blockchain is the most important sociological aspect, that the technology potentially has to offer.
The freedom that can be provided through "sound money" is evidently necessary - in my humble opinion - for a long list of reasons. A statement, that many of the earliest adopters of Bitcoin will probably agree with.
Blockchain technology represents the first modern development of that concept, and has since led to a blockchain craze has risen in its tracks - trying to "force" blockchain into a vast variety of potential use cases, many of which are most likely unnecessary at best, and/or opportunistic to some degree, in many cases.
One of the less foreseeable original use cases for blockchain technology, DOES however seem to be a different freedom serving aspect, that we desperately and evidently need, is a similar blockchain based achitecture for online social media and interaction.
"Money as a form of expression" as Andreas Antonopolous so eloquently puts it.
With the current political climate, of trying to influence the platforms curation of content, through a variety of laws, such as copyright and discrimination. I will try to underline in my next few posts, how critical decentralized social networks, based on censorship-resistant, immutable blockchain technology could be for free speech.
And what better place to do that, than Steemit - the first example of exactly such a platform, that I have come across.
Brevity is the soul of wit - and longevity the soul of the contemplative!
#0.0 - Who am I, and how did I get here? [intro]
#0.1 - Who am I, and how did I get here? [pt. II]
#1.0 - How the DeepWeb made me a HODL'er
#1.1 - The power of addiction...
#2.0 - If something seems too good to be true...
#2.1 - Is Bitcoin the exception to the rule..?
#3.0 - The revolution that never came... [Pt. I]
#3.1 - The revolution that never came... Or did it? [Pt. II]
#4.0 - Is Bitcoin doing its job?
#4.1 - Is Bitcoin working... and are you putting it to work?
#5.0 - Why you should spend Bitcoin NOW, no matter what the price is...
#5.1 - The reasons for spending your bitcoin, constantly
#5.2 - Getting the most out of buying bitcoin by spending them - HODL'er edition
#6.1 - Crypto Currency; from anarchism to socio-capitalism..?
#7.1 - Why a $1000 Bitcoin could be a good thing
#8.1 - SaveYourInternet.EU - A last minute cry for action
#8.2 - How the EU will require all "information platforms" to spy on everything you post
#8.3 - How the EU will police what can be said online
#8.4 - The internet is about to become the ultimate dream of a tyrannical state!
#8.5 - Free Speech vs. E.U. a 1-0 win (for now)
#9.1 - The importance of decentralized social networks