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Before the Ban helps you backup your content and continue to share it with the your followers, even if your account is suspended, terminated, or “shadow banned.” It helps users locate your new accounts or URLs after a ban.

Before the Ban implements a decentralized web of trust based on assertions and witnesses related to the connection between social media users, individual persons (or personae), and content URIs. The web of trust is overlaid on existing social media networks, and “backed up” to decentralized storage through IPFS. All assertions and witness are, in effect, sets of vertices and edges in a graph database. Each of these “claims” has a globally unique ID related to the hash of the data, and, if the user has declared a public key, the signature validating their possession of the corresponding private key.