People using the system to say things that I don't like, won't be "solved" by letting everyone have the system help them find whoever they tell it they trust.
Using a trust / reputation system to prevent wrongthink means it has to be a centralized reputation system, where anyone too far from the median (or who the Cabal doesn't like, if you design it to not trust the general userbase) gets shut down.
Also, why would a decentralized system be able to have a stronger effect that the efforts Twitter and Facebook are currently taking to flag or block wrongthink? If those efforts are "half measures", what sort of "full measure" would this reputation system impose? And if it's really distributed, how would that be imposed?
Using a trust / reputation system to prevent wrongthink means it has to be a centralized reputation system, where anyone too far from the median (or who the Cabal doesn't like, if you design it to not trust the general userbase) gets shut down.
Also, why would a decentralized system be able to have a stronger effect that the efforts Twitter and Facebook are currently taking to flag or block wrongthink? If those efforts are "half measures", what sort of "full measure" would this reputation system impose? And if it's really distributed, how would that be imposed?