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You can't fix this with tech. No amount of decentralized web will help if ID is legally required to post things. Torrenting, encryption, and similar will simpl

• CryptoPunk 9y ago
  While I agree that it's critically important to not get on the slippery slope of laws that restrict internet freedom, I think a decentralized internet infrastructure would make censorship significantly more difficult for governments to impose. Without centralised gatekeepers, the only viable way to censor the internet is to enforce laws on end-users, which is a daunting task for any government. And technologically, at least two of the necessary elements for a global meshnet are here: protocols for decentralized addressing and routing, like cjdns >1, and protocols for peer-to-peer electronic value transfer between nodes, like Raiden >2. The only major missing piece of the technological puzzle, AFAICS, is a technology for cheaply deploying telecommunication backbone links. >1 https://github.com/cjdelisle/cjdns/blob/master/doc/Whitepaper.md https://github.com/cjdelisle/cjdns/blob/master/doc/Whitepape... >2 https://github.com/raiden-network/raiden/blob/master/README.md https://github.com/raiden-network/raiden/blob/master/README.... DISCLAIMER: I am by no means a bonafide cryptopunk. I have contributed very little code and other meaningful technical work to privacy tech projects.