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EndThePizza ago

I hadn't thought about the hiring PI side of things. But I think it would be possible and very useful to have some kind of hybrid wikipedia - wikileaks organization. Have people submit info on scandals, peer review and verify, and officially post it once it's confirmed by many sources. Do everything possible to keep a trustworthy reputation. Imagine if we had the facts on every politician's scandals available on a single public platform, crowdsourced and therefore as un-biased as possible.

Remember, as nice as it would be to see people go to jail for their crimes, public opinion alone should be enough to keep the worst people out of office.

amCassandraAMA ago

the problem is how vulnerable this is. First you have to have a server somewhere. Most probably in a country that welcomes free speech like Iceland. This is physically vulnerable.

Then you need persons that have administrative control over the platform, these persons can be corrupted or dissappeared.

The software side itself is also vulnerable: it's not just about removing or corrupting information, peer review and crosschecking and redundancy can handle that. There also is the possiblity to just ddos such a website into not working at all, or planting malware / man in the middle attacks, to identify the most important contributors and mute / dissappear them.

I sincerely have no idea how to handle such a platform, youve seen what happened to Wikileaks, although I agree to the sentiment that we need SOMETHING

EndThePizza ago

Yeah, I have no knowledge about what would be needed for security. But, the beauty of the internet is there's many people out there who do. I'm sure there are enough tech security experts that some of them would be willing to lend their skills to the cause.