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Vitalik Buterin

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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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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The issue here is not that judges are doxxed. In fact that's healthy in a well-functioning society, because it lets them take part in public life to represent their institution. This attack is a symptom of state capture in the US that won't be solved by anon voting.

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ummm @purp did you just qc’d by Vitalik?!? 🙌👊🤟

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Judge can only make the ruling anonymously if they're holding more than 2M $ANON

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Secret ballot breaks accountability on decision making. We need to detect errors and bias too.

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The risks to transparency and long-term systemic health outweigh the benefits, potentially creating a cure worse than the disease. Instead, I’d advocate for stronger protections within a transparent framework: better security for judges, stricter laws against threats, and perhaps hybrid anonymity in extreme cases.

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What happened to that judge shows why some level of anonymity can matter. In politics or governance, participants could first vote anonymously, verified with zero-knowledge proofs, on whether a decision itself should be anonymous. If about 60% agree, the final vote would follow the same process, with a clear reason, delayed release, and checks to keep it honest.

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Trump has been inciting violence against judges his whole term https://www.reuters.com/investigations/these-judges-ruled-against-trump-then-their-families-came-under-attack-2025-05-02/

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Sure but this is the US we're talking about, if the judges were anon how could the ruling class bribe them? 🤷‍♂️

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I actually think I agree with you on this one vitalik

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Privacy is good and a human right. However, I think Ethereum L1 should remain public and transparent. We can easily build privacy solutions on top of a transparent ledger, but building transparency solutions on top of an opaque ledger would be much harder. And transparency is needed for lots of things too! Fundamental things like trust.

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That’s a really interesting perspective. I agree that protecting judges’ identities in sensitive cases can help ensure fairness and reduce outside pressure. Justice should always be based on facts and conscience, not fear.

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Sounds like it was determined not to be arson. Judges should fear making bad decisions and the impact on people. In South Carolina they released a man with over a dozen felonies who eventually killed an innocent woman in her sleep. This happens after with these judges letting hard criminals go. Murder and Violence should not be tolerated but judges should never get to judge anonymously!!!

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example: lavajato lawfare case tell me how a society could clean the corruption who send the president to the jail and allow a imposter to destroy the amazonas to get profit (among others)

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The goat has spoken

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That's exactly why we are building https://davinci.vote

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