It just showed the developer is not to be trusted.
You are right that there are underlying causes that needs to be addressed. That's why it spread so much and so fast. But that doesn't make racially motivated fake news OK.
But this seems easy to automatically block, no? If a client is querying an unknown domain check for some Matrix related data in /.well-known/
and add it to the block list if there is. And since the servers are publicly advertising the port used you just need to periodically check the list of known matrix domains you are creating in the first step.
Russia is already doing DPI and blocking ESNI so that seems easy. A more widespread usage of ECH would help everyone, as is Signal advocating, but that's not the case yet.
But no one is saying that a single tweet started all this.
But what's the link with the arrested woman?
I did not know about Rotherham, what's the link between the two?
She has not been jailed and we don't know what she posted.
Obviously there is no ground to ban every news but I agree something should be done about politicians and media spurring hate.
What would a blockchain provide here?
A fake news meant to stir up racial hatred.
- CEO is also homophobic and a covid skeptic
- the browser used to modify crypto exchange URLs to add it's affiliate code to it
- it used to collect donations for content creators without their consent
While the code being open is good you still have to rely on trust.
I certainly don't have the time to review to code of each extension I use. And even then, we have no garanties that the extension distributed through the browser stores has the same code.
You can see the issue was opened on august 18th but the responsible commit was only made on the 19th. So the code was pushed the extension users before it was made available on the repository. Open code is of no help here.