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You won’t find anyone saying that censorship is the type of damage to be routed around, in a serious engineering way, because that’s more of a colloquialism tha
by orev 4y ago
You won’t find anyone saying that censorship is the type of damage to be routed around, in a serious engineering way, because that’s more of a colloquialism than a true design principle. Asserting that it was almost seems like a straw man.
The concept of routing around censorship is more of a behavior by people using the applications that the Internet has enabled. There’s no RFC for that.
- schoen 4y agoSpecifically, "the net interprets censorship as damage and routes around it" is a statement of John Gilmore and originally referred to Usenet (not the Internet). In its most literal sense, it refers to the fact that Usenet tried to achieve reliability by replicating a complete set of recent articles by a flood fill-like algorithm, regardless of the specific path that they took to reach an individual node. Therefore, if you deleted an individual article in one place, it would still propagate elsewhere, even if it took a longer route to reach a given destination. It also has a more figurative interpretation in which net users try to maintain connectivity and the free flow of information, and try to find workarounds when either is disrupted.
- tiahura 4y agoTIL Thanks