ipfs developers maintain a blacklist where any specific piece of content or entire sites can be blocked. Do not assume leftist will protect our speech.
The devs have created a FORCED blocklists so that people on the network can not download certain hashes (a video or a website, etc), they use the usual excuses. Thus they made it possible to censor IPFS. Because of pressure from State level adversaries and copyright rights groups, they unfortunately made the choice was to become a shittier version of Akamai and to abandon the censorship resistance of the system that is now falsely sold as censorship-resistant.
In IPFS it is easy to connect your IP address to a specific piece of content (kiddy pron) Ergo, people who do not use the blocklists could be made liable irrespective of whether they have willfully accessed that content or not. Hidding content on a website not visible to the user but still downloading to their cash could be a dirty trick. If your intent is to circumvent power structures like the State or specific platforms then TOR is the only highly safe solution, the States and specific industries will enforce their will upon IPFS which is in essence just a content data system and has ZERO anonymity.
So who will review the content claims and reports? Who will be authorized to add content hashes to the blocklist? How will counter notices be handled? How will different jurisdictions and conflicting laws be handled? Who will be liable for content that makes it past the filters? Who will pay for all this?
It also has blacklists you can voluntarily subscribe to, to block harmful or dangerous content like malware, rootkits and so forth, this is not that.
This is a truly decentralized, fairly distributed and more resilient internet protocol.
I'd be concerned about that part. A lot of pie in the sky networking projects are hung up on net neutrality and the idea that all network users should be treated equally. I'm a bit more enthusiastic about altheanet which allows users to bid for bandwidth, paying highly congested routes more during peak times (so encouraging them to expand) and encouraging users of those routes to save traffic for off peak times.
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With Net Neutrality laws being overruled in the United States, the wins keep racking up for big-name providers via their large lobbying budgets. Without change, ISPs will continually be able to milk you for every last nickel and dime for the simple service required these days for everyday life and the needs of the evolving world.
Yeah, they're trying to cash in on the net neutrality buzz, which either means that they're cynically just trying to grab uneducated people's attention or they don't know what they're talking about. Either way it doesn't inspire confidence in the project.
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New_goat ago
We all should learn to use ipfs https://ipfs.io
NACHTJAGD ago
ipfs developers maintain a blacklist where any specific piece of content or entire sites can be blocked. Do not assume leftist will protect our speech.
SigniferLux ago
Please explain.
NACHTJAGD ago
The devs have created a FORCED blocklists so that people on the network can not download certain hashes (a video or a website, etc), they use the usual excuses. Thus they made it possible to censor IPFS. Because of pressure from State level adversaries and copyright rights groups, they unfortunately made the choice was to become a shittier version of Akamai and to abandon the censorship resistance of the system that is now falsely sold as censorship-resistant.
In IPFS it is easy to connect your IP address to a specific piece of content (kiddy pron) Ergo, people who do not use the blocklists could be made liable irrespective of whether they have willfully accessed that content or not. Hidding content on a website not visible to the user but still downloading to their cash could be a dirty trick. If your intent is to circumvent power structures like the State or specific platforms then TOR is the only highly safe solution, the States and specific industries will enforce their will upon IPFS which is in essence just a content data system and has ZERO anonymity.
So who will review the content claims and reports? Who will be authorized to add content hashes to the blocklist? How will counter notices be handled? How will different jurisdictions and conflicting laws be handled? Who will be liable for content that makes it past the filters? Who will pay for all this?
It also has blacklists you can voluntarily subscribe to, to block harmful or dangerous content like malware, rootkits and so forth, this is not that.
Broc_Lia ago
Interesting, and depressing, thanks.
Unfortunately TOR are also SJWs and ultimately are a deep state project, so it's hard to know how far to trust them.
NACHTJAGD ago
This is where you should be placing your basket of hopeful eggs in my opinion:
https://medium.com/skycoin/skywire-the-new-internet-for-the-new-world-6d09a8542c50
Broc_Lia ago
I'd be concerned about that part. A lot of pie in the sky networking projects are hung up on net neutrality and the idea that all network users should be treated equally. I'm a bit more enthusiastic about altheanet which allows users to bid for bandwidth, paying highly congested routes more during peak times (so encouraging them to expand) and encouraging users of those routes to save traffic for off peak times.
Edit:
Yeah, they're trying to cash in on the net neutrality buzz, which either means that they're cynically just trying to grab uneducated people's attention or they don't know what they're talking about. Either way it doesn't inspire confidence in the project.
I'll keep an eye on it though.