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Comment by mike_d | Hacker News Reader

Everyone wants to open source their code until someone else makes a billion dollars of it. Everyone wants censorship resistant end to end encryption until terrorists use it. Everyone wants software patents to not exist until they get issued a really good one.

This is a classic case of trying to put the genie back in the bottle.

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Number 2 and 3 are false.

Edit: I want e2e encryption but not censorship resistant, not when it starts getting used for inciting to violence. Search for eg "WhatsApp lynch mobs" or "Facebook Myanmar genocide".

By very definition, it cannot be "end to end" encryption if it isn't encrypted from one end to another.

Here's a way to build true e2e encryption apps that can be, to some extent, censored:

NLP locally in the phone -- an AI that slightly understand what the user writes -- and if it's (I'm oversimplifying) like "kill all ...", then the AI bricks the phone.

Otherwise it's e2e as usual.

An AI that understand what the user writes? We are far away from that. "All my service processes hang." "Kill all" Bricked

It seems unclear what you mean by 2 and 3 being false - plenty of folks want those things.

About 3: I want software patents to not exist also if I get a good patent, so GGP's "everyone" is inaccurate.

(But I guess I'd taken Elastic's approach and switched to SSPL)

About 2: i replied here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25798359

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