How we will keep the Decentralized Web decentralized: my talk from the Decentralized Web Summit

At yesterday’s Internet Archive Decentralized Web Summit, the afternoon was given over to questions of security and policy.

I gave the opening talk, “How Stupid Laws and Benevolent Dictators can Ruin the Decentralized Web, too,” which was about “Ulysses pacts“: bargains you make with yourself when your willpower is strong to prevent giving into temptation later when you are tired or demoralized, and how these have benefited the web to date, and how new, better ones can protect the decentr...