Re: [freenet-chat] Re: Crazy idea: How trust in darknets enables secure democratic censorship

On 13 Jul 2005, at 17:14, Matthew Toseland wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 13, 2005 at 04:27:31PM +0100, Ian Clarke wrote:
>
>> I'm not getting sucked into this, mainly because I share Matthew
>> Exon's position on this and he is doing a pretty good job of
>> defending it.  Censorship by majority is just as bad as censorship by
>> your government, if not worse in many cases.
>>
>> Toad, if you lived in Iran just how far do you think you would get
>> sharing information about Christianity if you could be censored by
>> those around you?  Is that the kind of Freenet we want to create?  It
>> certainly isn't the kind of Freenet I have been working towards for
>> the last 6 or 7 years...
>>
>
> Then go to another darknet.

The whole point of this is that there is only one darknet, a global  
one where everyone is (indirectly) connected to everyone else, so  
there is no "other" darknet.

> Anyway there are technical issues preventing this, namely the need to
> keep records of inserts (which would obviously be very useful to
> attackers who can bust nodes).

Good, although I would rather the discussion ended for the right  
reason (ie. the idea is fundamentally contrary to Freenet's goals),  
rather than a technicality.

Ian.