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Aragon co-founder Luis
Cuende told Cointelegraph that the decentralized technology his company
has been developing could find its perfect use case on social media
platforms like Facebook and Twitter. 

In recent months, content
moderation practices employed by global social media platforms have been
criticized by people across the political spectrum. Libertarian-leaning
constituencies tend to criticize them for essentially instituting
politically correct censorship while the liberals contend that they are
not doing enough to filter offensive content. To this point, yesterday,
the FBI charged
six individuals with a plot to kidnap the governor of Michigan,
Gretchen Whitmer. It has since been reported that the accused allegedly
coordinated their actions via a private Facebook group.

Jack Dorsey has indicated previously that blockchain technology will be a game-changer for the Internet,
with Twitter being no exception. He is also a vocal advocate of
decentralized technology in general; yesterday, his other venture, Square, announced the purchase of $50 million worth of Bitcoin (BTC).

Aragon
provides a technology stack for decentralized autonomous organizations,
or DAOs. Some of the better-known DeFi projects that use Aragon’s
technology are AAVE, Curve, and mStable. It also provides a framework
for a virtual court, where contestants have to stake some amount of
crypto and then submit to the decision of the decentralized jurors.

Just
like with a regular court system, the losing party can appeal to the
higher court (in Aragon's case, with more jurors) and eventually take
their case to what Cuende dubs the “Supreme Court”, where the entire
network gets to vote. It should be noted that Aragon Court is still in
beta and participants have only settled a few basic cases thus far.

Cuende
believes that the moderation woes experienced by social media platforms
present a perfect use case for Aragon’s technology once the tech
matures. In his view, the polarization around this phenomenon arises
from the fact that one party (Twitter) controls the outcome, which
constitutes censorship, whereas if it were left to the community, the
results would be more like moderation:

“I think
censorship is when the rules are defined by one party, moderation is
when there's a consensus on the rules. So otherwise, I think if Twitter
and Facebook were actually governed by its users in some way that feels
fair to everyone, then we could collectively decide on the rules. We
could collectively decide on what to do and what not, and we could push
that forward. And that can be implemented today, the technology is
there.”

Cuende said that he has not reached out to Dorsey yet, but will likely do it in the near future:

“I think it's kind of like maybe too early for that, but I think it's a matter of time.”