Building A Censor-Resistant Web?
from the one-option dept
With recent efforts to take down various websites, which we’ve been documenting here on Techdirt, there’s been increasing discussions about ways to create a more “censor-proof” internet. We’ve discussed the idea of a decentralized DNS system and now Aaron Swartz is proposing a “censor-resistant web” system that makes use of hashes and authentication certificates. It’s an interesting idea, though it does seem like there are a lot of moving parts, which might make it more difficult to implement. Either way, as we’ve been predicting for a while now, a lot of the events of the past few months have really only served to expose bottleneck intermediaries and to alert people to infrastructure that needs to be more decentralized.
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