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Resisting liberal-corporate censorship


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2019 May 10, 5:21pm   690 views  3 comments

by Patrick   ➕follow (55)   💰tip   ignore  

Now that https://heartiste.wordpress.com/ has fallen victim to the agents of intolerance, it's time to get serious about resisting liberal-corporate censorship of free speech.

I keep coming back to the idea that sftp is a core part of our future freedom, because:

* sftp encrypts traffic without relying on centralized authorities for ssl certificates, unlike https
* sftp is very easy to use (just get or put files to a server)
* sftp does not rely on domain names, so you can sftp to an ip address
* sftp is already pretty ubiquitous: most computers have an sftp client installed, and to ban the ssh protocol it runs on would cripple tech work too

A small shim program run on clients could serve the retrieved files from localhost so that you could still surf "the web" as usual, yet it would not be the web as we know it. You'd have to register by submitting a public key generated with ssh-keygen and people would get to be known by their keys.

How can we keep this as SIMPLE as possible, while keeping it constantly self-replicating to multiple servers? How can the servers be found without relying on centralized search engines?

@mell

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1   mell   2019 May 10, 8:02pm  

That's a great idea and I remember you mentioning it before, I would need to consult a few people that know more in the operational / infrastructure realm than me. I'll see what I can find out. Maybe others on patnet have some input, too.
2   mell   2019 May 10, 8:20pm  

@Patrick there is already one contender besides sftp with similar qualities, check it out: https://ipfs.io/
3   mell   2019 May 10, 8:26pm  

@Patrick https://github.com/ipfs/js-ipfs (there's also a more mature go impl but I'm more interested in JS not just because it's independent but that is also a big plus)

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