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   "text": "Attack resistance should be designed to increase as the platform grows, in contrast to designs like GEMS that detect and ban malicious actors, because a self enforcement mechanism lets the incentive system steer users away from bad actors once the system matures.",
   "abstract": "Unlike GEMS, which bans malicious actors detected through the GEMS trust mechanism from the platform, the Semada platform has a self-enforcement mechanism.",
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   "text": "If transparent democratic institutions are not built to replace the corrupt ones, new opaque centralized institutions will take their place, as Facebook, YouTube, and Twitter already do with secret algorithms that control what stories spread with no democratic oversight.",
   "abstract": "If we don't build transparent democratic institutions to replace the corrupt insti- tutions, new opaque centralized institutions will. Already, Facebook, YouTube, and Twitter are creating secret algorithms that control what type of story can be spread through their platforms",
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   "text": "Solving the identity problem through centralized control fails on its own terms: it reintroduces rent seeking intermediaries who extract value, censor participants, and create single points of failure, which is precisely what decentralized systems exist to eliminate.",
   "abstract": "Second, the centralization problem: Platforms that solve the identity problem through centralized control8 introduce rent-seeking intermediaries who extract value, censor participants, and create single points of failure.",
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