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Why would you need the block chain here again? At that point it needs to be an app because your browser can't consume any of that shit and you are creating an immutable record of who reported who in such a way to ensure punishment.
Because the government can't take it down, and the government will want to take it down, and the government would even try to issue arrest warrants for people who made it outside the US to try and punish them. This dude who wrote this is in danger now.
~~Web browsers are capable of self checking a smart contract for new transactions, it is totally possible.~~
Who reported it would be anonymous if they used something like Tornado Cash, or if a service was able to be built ontop of a privacy coin like Monero.
Edit: Sorry I'm wrong about the web browser, you'd have to run your own node outside the browser or trust someone else's node, and then the browser would hit the node. On phones you'd need to use a mobile app which can be a light client, or connect to your desktop's node.
Once you need a normal server you might as well just have the server you already need serve the info preferably simply by grabbing a diff from previously so you reveal no info and without downloading a substantial portion of a chain. I swear people want to shove a blockchain into shit when it almost never adds any value whatsoever. You didn't address the fact about making an indelible link between you and your report and indeed prior reports if you are ever nabbed.
You wanna go to jail hosting that server? You want to be extradited from another partnering country to the USA for inciting violence? For accessory to murder if something went wrong?
How is the link indelible when it's anonymous? This isn't money that can be traced back to you once it goes through Tornado Cash, or if it was done on something like Monero.
Edit:
https://www.yahoo.com/news/attorney-general-pam-bondi-warns-092112825.html
This dudes life might be fucked now.
But sure, no reason, just trying to shove blockchain into everything.
A block chain is a distributed permanent ledger of transactions where any intermediary who claims to provide anonymity is in danger of being compromised and turning instantly into a Honey pot
Tornado Cash is a smart contract. It's not anything that can be compromised. It's code. It's cryptography. Its immutable and can never be altered.
It's unstoppable short of making using it against the law, and the US government tried that, and lost their court case.
Edit: Just further clarity - Once you deposit money into it, you get cryptographically signed response that says you have the right to withdraw that much money, but the response has no link to you. The money you get back is mixed with millions of other peoples money, and you withdraw someone elses money.