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RE: !!! FOLLOWUP !!! EXISTENCE of Steem and Steemit UNDER THREAT? - Hollywood Blockbusters Published by Steemians on Steem and Steemit
I have brought up the same issue multiple times.Infact I see witness and seednode will be responsible to remove content if and when a DCA notice is issued. I almost became a witness but haven't gone online yet. not sure how the steemit architecture handles this ?? If an even like that happen and get publicized sure it will have negative impact on steem valuation and steem ecosystem in general
Removing is not possible due to the nature of blockchain technology. I think what can be done at best is to hide the content, but that needs to be a function of the blockchain / API or something. We have the nfsw function to 'hide' content, but I think this is a frontend function, since on some of the non-Steemit UI's this content is shown, not hidden as in Steemit UI. So I suppose something needs to be on blockchain level, with a marker to show some content to be 'removed' and when checked never be accessible through the blockchain APIs. But so far, I'm wondering if anybody owning video UIs to the Steem blockchain, or STINC is seeing this as a problem that needs to be addressed. I did not see any evidence so far. But that doesnt mean that eg STINC is not addressing this already, but just not communicating.
I did a lot of search regarding this topic, in bitcoin forum there is discussion in this regard but it wandered off. I never got a solid answer from anyone and I am still searching. Seems like furion atleast is trying to include tools for the hosting providers to look for such content and take action. Many of the architecture have just reference and video/pictures are in some other server.So when the video/pictures are removed from the servers, the reference in block chain becomes invalid providing the "delete" effect .. But if they use IPFS to distribute video/image, I have no clue
The techies have to find a solution, since IPFS based storage means not possible to remove it. So it needs to be hidden forever when the authorities demand removal.