The traditional WWW has shown its weaknesses with websites that exist at the boundaries of legality like Sci-Hub and the Pirate Bay, or that probe the edges of

The traditional WWW has shown its weaknesses with websites that exist at the boundaries of legality like Sci-Hub and the Pirate Bay, or that probe the edges of free speech like Stormfront or forums that support Islamic terrorism. Fact is unless you're a Tier 1 ISP yourself, you're going to be beholden to an ISP to host your content. Your domain name will be beholden to a registrar. Your TLS certificate will be beholden to a certificate authority. You're going to be subject to every one of these organizations' terms of service, and history has shown with the examples above that they will exercise that authority to pull the plug on you if it suits them (especially if they're facing a mob of public opinion or the state puts a gun to their head).