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Imagine if there were no brands and all goods were being sold w/o any name attached to them: how would you know what NOT to buy next time?
I think most people could get around it if some user-friendly apps were created using the above method.
The apps would of course be banned from the two globo-homo app stores, but people could side-load the app onto their phones, as they say.
I’d do Usenet instead of BitTorrent. It’s designed to handle large numbers of messages.
Nah, it should run in a browser.
YouTube traffic in Russia has plummeted to just 20 percent of its “normal levels” in recent days, a leading Russian expert said, describing the situation as a “de facto” blocking of the video-sharing platform in the country.
Mikhail Klimarev, director of the nonprofit organization Society for the Protection of the Internet, said in a Telegram post on December 23 that YouTube traffic in Russia has dropped to one-fifth of the levels recorded before the authorities reportedly began to deliberately slow down the service in July.
“Google’s monitoring service currently shows 8.5 traffic points from Russia. Before the “slowdown,” it was 40 points. This means it’s now at roughly 20 percent of normal levels,” Klimarev wrote on his Telegram channel, ZaTelecom, adding: “YouTube is de facto blocked in Russia.”
Here is an idea for the simplest possible system that works without requiring a domain name or an SSL certificate, both of which are vulnerabilities to censorship:
The writer generates an ssh keypair like this: ssh-keygen -t rsa -b 4096 -C "your_email@something.com"
Writer writes message, which can be arbitrarily large and complex, but needs to be a single file.
Writer timestamps message, includes public key, and signs message with private key.
Writer publishes message by uploading it via Bittorrent.
Users who know the writer can search for the writer's public key on Bittorrent, and thus see all of that writer's messages.
Reader checks that the message was signed with private key corresponding to included public key, so that writers cannot be spoofed and messages cannot be edited.
But how to know the real-world identity of the writer? That seems difficult, but perhaps it is for the best, so that anonymity is preserved.
To reply, one need simply refer to the writer's public key and the timestamp.
The writer of the original post could create a stream of conversation by choosing to search for and republish replies. This would give that writer some measure of control over the conversation.