Bitcoin crowdfunding campaign in support of protests in Canada raises over 250,000$
https://ift.tt/ARGI7Sy
TLDR; These sites will either cave, or get taken down as well. They should spin up an onion while they still can.
This is great and all, but how much pressure do people think `TallyCoin` and `GiveSendGo` can survive. Since I don’t see either of these sites running decentralized infrastructure (Onion, IPFS, I2P), they are certainly susceptible to pressure.
#### Coercion
The obvious pressure is simply coercion where public pressure or threats of audit (IRS) may cause sites to pull campaigns in the same manner. The site owners may be steadfast, but that is not always a garantee
#### Social Media Revocation
Both of these sites have social media accounts and those could easily be frozen by Youtube, Twitter, Facebook, if they haven’t already. I don’t see any appstore links, but I’d imagine those would be an easy target as well.
#### Browser Blacklisting
The next major dependency are the three largest browsers, Chrome, Firefox and Safari. All three maintain an “Unsafe Site” list that these fundraisers could easily be added to if those browser foundations choose to do so.
#### CA / SSL Revocation
Moving down the line, both these sites use a “Let’s Encrypt” certificate authority. If Let’s Encrypt bowed to pressure, they could revoke their SSL certificate. It would be similar to a browser blacklist.
#### DNS Revocation
Both TallyCoin and GiveSendGo use GoDaddy as their domain register. I know GoDaddy has no problem revoking registration for any site or cause that they feel is “bad”. Some other anti-censorship platforms have fallen under their terms-of-service clauses before
#### Web Network Hosting
Even if Let’s Encrypt, GoDaddy, and the Browsers choose to ignore social pressure, unless they are housing their own network-edge and server infrastructure, whichever company serves their networking and server hosting could pull the plug.
So it’s nice that we can donate in BTC-LN, but I’m sorry… Unless I see an Onion or IPFS link, I think it’s only a matter of time before these sites get taken down.
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