Will 'Distributed Cloud' Network Structures Prevent Censorship?

[Steve Schear]

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


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