Aragon co-founder Luis Cuende instructed Cointelegraph that the decentralized know-how his firm has been growing may discover its good use case on social media platforms like Fb and Twitter. 

In current months, content material moderation practices employed by international social media platforms have been criticized by folks throughout the political spectrum. Libertarian-leaning constituencies are likely to criticize them for primarily instituting politically right censorship whereas the liberals contend that they don’t seem to be doing sufficient to filter offensive content material. So far, yesterday, the FBI charged six people with a plot to kidnap the governor of Michigan, Gretchen Whitmer. It has since been reported that the accused allegedly coordinated their actions through a personal Fb group.

Jack Dorsey has indicated beforehand that blockchain know-how can be a game-changer for the Web, with Twitter being no exception. He’s additionally a vocal advocate of decentralized know-how usually; yesterday, his different enterprise, Sq., introduced the acquisition of $50 million price of Bitcoin (BTC).

Aragon gives a know-how stack for decentralized autonomous organizations, or DAOs. A few of the better-known DeFi tasks that use Aragon’s know-how are AAVE, Curve, and mStable. It additionally gives a framework for a digital court docket, the place contestants need to stake some quantity of crypto after which undergo the choice of the decentralized jurors.

Similar to with a daily court docket system, the dropping celebration can attraction to the upper court docket (in Aragon’s case, with extra jurors) and ultimately take their case to what Cuende dubs the “Supreme Courtroom”, the place the whole community will get to vote. It must be famous that Aragon Courtroom continues to be in beta and contributors have solely settled just a few primary circumstances so far.

Cuende believes that the moderation woes skilled by social media platforms current an ideal use case for Aragon’s know-how as soon as the tech matures. In his view, the polarization round this phenomenon arises from the truth that one celebration (Twitter) controls the result, which constitutes censorship, whereas if it have been left to the group, the outcomes can be extra like moderation:

“I feel censorship is when the principles are outlined by one celebration, moderation is when there is a consensus on the principles. So in any other case, I feel if Twitter and Fb have been really ruled by its customers in a roundabout way that feels honest to everybody, then we may collectively resolve on the principles. We may collectively resolve on what to do and what not, and we may push that ahead. And that may be carried out as we speak, the know-how is there.”

Cuende mentioned that he has not reached out to Dorsey but, however will doubtless do it within the close to future:

“I feel it is sort of like possibly too early for that, however I feel it is a matter of time.”