Fighting back: Web3 as the ultimate catalyst of censorship resistance

This is, admittedly, a very powerful idea. The challenges of Web 1.0 and Web 2.0 around ownership, censorship, and digital rights are highly nontrivial ones. For web3 enthusiasts, these issues are existential threats to the web, threats that web3 will eradicate simply by eliminating the question. There can be no debate on the power or responsibilit... See more

As with the shift from Web1 to Web2, the shift from Web2 to Web3 is largely due to infrastructure advancement, but there will be a mindset shift for builders and developers as governance will be much more user-centered. With the removal of a middleman and data living on immutable infrastructure, there is no control over data thus no censorship and ... See more

Web3 (or Web 3, or Web 3.0) is an umbrella term for various efforts to reshape the web in order to:

• Make it easy for users to control their own data and content and move between different apps and platforms;


• Enable users to receive a share of the revenue their online activities generates for the platforms and apps they use; and


• Enable web users and ap

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Some claim web3 is about ownership, but it is more appropriate to say that web3 is about wealth. Very little in the web3 advocacy space addresses how it will match Web 1.0 and 2.0’s successes in terms of discoverability and sharing. It offers little by way of guarantee that it will protect its users' digital rights, in some cases making them much w... See more

Are we destined for an even less private web? Who is affected by web3's lack of privacy is not addressed? Crypto users often maintain split identities because they do not wish to be exposed to the public eye. Still, they must be willing to try to maintain privacy, identity management, and pseudonymity.

This interpretation stands in contrast to the claims that web3 advocates make. They claim that web2 is a centralized mess dominated by technology megacorporations and web3 is now about content ownership. In order to achieve these goals, they must create an entirely new operating model for the web, one built on the blockchain. Blockchain is in effec... See more

While web 3.0 is an exciting opportunity to create a decentralized internet that is better than the existing, web3 is not simply a silver bullet solution for everything.

While Web3 has the potential to reimagine how we use the internet, it also raises thorny issues around privacy, user experience, and how much control users truly want.