Comment by JuniperMesos
Comment by JuniperMesos 3 hours ago
If I have to pay you to access a service, and I'm not doing so through one of a small number of anonymity-preserving cryptocurrencies such as Bitcoin or Monero, then the legitimate financial system has an ultimate veto on what I can say online.
It does if you don't pay to access the service as well, because the financial system is the underpinning of their ad network.
Even in a federated system, you can be blacklisted although it does take more coordination and work.
i2p and writing to the blockchain are an attempt to deal with that through permanence, but those are not without their own (serious) problems.