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This is the quintessential example of solving a legal, cultural and regulatory problem with a technical solution.<p>Take the example of social media space, companies like Google&#x2F;YouTube, Twitter, Facebook were wholly uninterested in policing political speech but they were forced to do so by political activists and Democrats and self-serving mainstream outlets (self-serving because when social media de-platforms, or demonetizes thousands of dinky little conservative or progressive outfits, they automatically raise traffic to conglomerate news. Similarly when Twitter banned political adverts, where do you think political adverts dollars went to?).<p>The crypto community is another community that suffers from this delusion. They think that they can build a technical platform to get around AML laws and regulations. Sure. My good friend worked in the San Fran ICO space and through her I met a ton of crypto people and they were all deluded like this (one of them though he could create a mesh network with drones to get around government control of the internet). Their perspectives were endearing and I appreciate their existence ... but delusional.<p>What do you think you&#x27;re going to solve by introducing yet another platform (centralized or decentralized)? You think you&#x27;re going to be left alone from those in positions of power (whether it be the mainstream media who want to reassert their traditional gatekeeping or governments and their regulatory bodies)?