Re: [Tech] Re: Crazy idea: How trust in darknets enables secure democratic censorship

Matthew Toseland <toad-EI5O+8PHWbJeeLb3ft/[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.network.freenet.general,gmane.network.freenet.technical
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Tue, Jul 12, 2005 at 04:17:03PM +0200, Someone wrote:
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> Ok, enough is enough. First you start ruling out users with weaker
> connections and those whose ISPs have a very bad infrastructure, some
> ISPs that simply can't handle the load generated by there users totally
> block UDP because all important traffic (pop, smtp, http...) is TCP, by
> switching the transport to UDP.

So is most unimportant traffic - Kazaa for example. But when did I say
we can't have a TCP transport as well? I think nextgens was interested
in writing one.
> 
> And now you try to get censorship in it. This isn't freenet anymore.
> It IMHO totally violates everything a free network stands for, meaning
> free and easy access for everyone without any censorship at all.

Uh, get a grip. It was a _suggestion_, a _proposal_. It wasn't a fait
accompli. It was not a dictat. It was simply something I would like
people to comment on.
> 
> You seem to have lost that target (or your mind), and so freenet will
> become a joke on itself. I don't want to have anything to do with
> something like that.
> 
> I'll stay on the old network as long as there is still live in it,
> but that farce called the freenet rewrite will never make it on my
> machine.

Umm, see above.
> 
> Go on, ruin freenet. Turn it into just another filesharing system
> without any meaning, I don't care anymore.
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Matthew J Toseland - toad-EI5O+8PHWbJeeLb3ft/[email protected]
Freenet Project Official Codemonkey - http://freenetproject.org/
ICTHUS - Nothing is impossible. Our Boss says so.

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