We see now that dictatorships slow down the progress of humanity and can plausibly threaten large-scale nuclear wars. Dictatorships are often toppled from inside with public protests (e.g. Poland 1988-1989, Tunisia 2011) but public protests face the coordination problem. There are many people willing to protest in dictatorships (e.g. Russia), but protesting in large groups is both more efficient and less risky because law enforcement has the cap on the number of detained. Idea: develop an app to sign-up for a prospective protest in advance and call the protest only if the N of protesters>threshold. Participants stake their money or reputation on showing up to the protest (showing up verified by phone geolocation) when they sign-up for it. A participant is losing the stake if not showing up for a called protest. As calling protests is often illegal, the app should be anonymous , identity-based (person=account) and hard to block. I imagine that doing a hash of a fingerprint would create a unique ID, and there are existing solutions for other technical problems (e.g. Telegram is hard to block due to domain fronting).
We see now that dictatorships slow down the progress of humanity and can plausibly threaten large-scale nuclear wars. Dictatorships are often toppled from inside with public protests (e.g. Poland 1988-1989, Tunisia 2011) but public protests face the coordination problem. There are many people willing to protest in dictatorships (e.g. Russia), but protesting in large groups is both more efficient and less risky because law enforcement has the cap on the number of detained. Idea: develop an app to sign-up for a prospective protest in advance and call the protest only if the N of protesters>threshold. Participants stake their money or reputation on showing up to the protest (showing up verified by phone geolocation) when they sign-up for it. A participant is losing the stake if not showing up for a called protest. As calling protests is often illegal, the app should be anonymous , identity-based (person=account) and hard to block. I imagine that doing a hash of a fingerprint would create a unique ID, and there are existing solutions for other technical problems (e.g. Telegram is hard to block due to domain fronting).