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Vitalik Buterin
@vitalik.eth
One of my more radical beliefs is that many more classes of governance actions should be anonymous / secret ballot (eg. I've advocated for secret-ballot UN general assembly votes before) This situation is a good argument for judges' identities being hidden (!!) when they make their rulings. The function of a judge is to rule according to the facts as interpreted through their conscience, not to be "accountable" to violent mobs.
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Vitalik Buterin
@vitalik.eth
Today this stuff sounds crazy and "why is the crypto bro pushing zk wizard tech solutions to a social problem", but in the 2020s age of easy physical retaliation (including by foreign adversary states), I think we'll see such ideas enter the overton window more.
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Thomas Mattimore
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I agree in principle. But how do you hold bad judges accountable? In San Francisco we have a particular judge that keeps releasing violent offenders over and over. If public didnt know, couldn’t vote for another one next time!
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Vitalik Buterin
@vitalik.eth
solution 1: 2-of-3 vote, to minimize impact of a single bad judge solution 2: a judge ID number (high-tech version: a zk nullifier) is published for each decision, so they can be fired but not retaliated against in other ways I would lean (1) at higher court levels, (2) at lower court levels
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burtonglobal
@cryptastrophe
There are definitely bad judges out there. Take, for example, Kevin Mullins. A judges principles must come from a common law. If it does not, they become isolationist that make damaging decisions.
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Johns | johnsgresham.eth
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