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Will 'Distributed Cloud' Network Structures Prevent Censorship?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Steve Schear)
Tue Jul 15 23:04:23 2003
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Date: Tue, 15 Jul 2003 14:10:54 -0700
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From: Steve Schear <s.schear@comcast.net>
Bennett Haselton believes that de-centralized information storage and
transmission systems - so called 'Distributed Cloud' networks like
<https://194.109.142.142:1984/redirect.php?url=http%3A%2F%2Fnews.bbc.co.uk%2F1%2Fhi%2Fsci%2Ftech%2F1313399.stm>Peekabooty,
<https://194.109.142.142:1984/redirect.php?url=http%3A%2F%2Ffreenet.sourceforge.net%2F>FreeNet
and
<https://194.109.142.142:1984/redirect.php?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.google.com%2Fsearch%3Fq%3Dcache%3A35zAWt7cO0sJ%3Awww.cs.uchicago.edu%2F%7Ematei%2FPAPERS%2Fgnutella-rc.pdf%2Bgnutella%2Barchitecture%2Bnetwork%26hl%3Den%26start%3D4%26ie%3DUTF-8>Gnutella
- will not prevent Internet censorship in the long run. He has written a
short essay http://www.peacefire.org/techpapers/distributed-cloud.html
pointing out the flaws he perceives in these systems.
Ian Clarke, the architect of the FreeNet project, responds here
http://slashdot.org/~Sanity/journal/37275, defending Distributed Cloud
systems and their abilities to prevent censorship, protect the identities
of their users, and shield users from legal liability.
steve
"There is no protection or safety in anticipatory servility."
Craig Spencer
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