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In that sense, I would agree, ipfs can provide access to content that would otherwise be blocked.
by HarfTarf 9y ago
In that sense, I would agree, ipfs can provide access to content that would otherwise be blocked.
- mtgx 9y agoCould ISPs throttle IPFS content the same way they did with torrents a while ago? (and probably will again once net neutrality falls).
- lgierth 9y agoSure -- but libp2p's network transports underneath are pluggable. There's already Websockets (/ws, think domain fronting! [1]) and Tor (/onion) transports, so there's various options for evading censorship (I personally consider bandwidth throttling a form of censorship). [1] Domain fronting lets you use a well-established web frontend for your web service. E.g. we could host /ws nodes in Google Cloud, and to the ISP the TLS handshake looks like it's for google.com, while inside the connection there's e.g. a `Host: libp2p.googlecloud.com` header. More info: https://www.bamsoftware.com/papers/fronting/ https://www.bamsoftware.com/papers/fronting/ But then again, net neutrality is a political issue! You don't solve it for good with technology.