<nettime> accelerating eats the world

[Morlock Elloi <morlockelloi@gmail.com>]

Heavy involvement of technology in social interactions keeps producing 
new challenges, that someone needs to deal with. That someone is getting 
more and more busy.
The latest event is discovery that someone was/is burning child 
pornography into ... blockchain. To be more specific, into Bitcoin 
blockchain: https://fc18.ifca.ai/preproceedings/6.pdf
As everyone knows, the blockchain is immutable and lasts forever.

Possession of child pornography is widely classified as felony, usually 
with no exceptions for 'accidental possession'.
This means that something has to give: either possessing Bitcoin 
blockchain is a felony (those images will *never* be removed), or 
inadvertent possession of child pornography is not a crime (which will 
give rise to new child pornography storage medium: blockchain.)
Discussions, meetings and other activities spent on this issue will burn 
huge amount of work hours, without creating any value except patching 
the broken system.


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