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You do not NEED domain nor third party hosting service, you just need access to the Internet. Obviously you are still relying that your ISP doesn't cut you off

You do not NEED domain nor third party hosting service, you just need access to the Internet. Obviously you are still relying that your ISP doesn't cut you off or censor you. Then why does it need to even be a website? IRC has been a thing for a long time, the protocol is simple to implement and anyone can setup a server, and once on a server anyone can make a channel. Sure at the end of the day you still need Internet access or you have to rely someone else doesn't ban you from their server/network, but if you go down this rabbit hole then you are relying on the power company to provide you with electricity and your government not to police/censor you. There already exists ideas (if not solutions) about distributed ham radio "dark webs" which would go around the ISP issue, but even then someone could just blast the air ways with random noise which would disable the network or at least slow it down to crawl. At some point you have to accept some amount of "risk", since you literally can not control for everything.

brongondwana 9y ago
You don't even need the internet, you can just whisper to yourself inside your head. Obviously you're relying on the power company and relying on the government of your own country to not lock you up - which brings us back to the public spaces where people can rant on street corners without being locked up - being heard by random passers by. Those same people can't rant on the internet in the same way without being banned from the sites where people might be able to discover them. A dark web site is only useful for speech if you have some way to be discovered.