[nine_k]

> Where does speech go then?

Federated / p2p systems like Mastodon? Non-Web-proper sites based on Dat and IPFS?

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If I were an adviser to the conspiracy theorists' insidious world government, I would suggest that pressure on non-consenting opinions be put carefully, to securely remove them form the normal mass Web, but not too strong as to push the normal users away from the (controlled) Web, to harder-to-control media. One way to achieve this is to allow some mild fringe content, and actively demonize any serious non-consenters, so that they'd look way off the chart to general public, thus "worthy" of being censored out.

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[repolfx]

Dat/IPFS are peer to peer protocols. There is nothing that makes them DDoS resistant, you can just locate each peer rehosting content and blast each one off the net.

But more to the point, being forced onto Dat or IPFS is equivalent to being erased, given that nobody would know how to find or access the new location (Google doesn't index such net spaces).

[nine_k]

Finding and blasting every peer is a bit harder, especially since pieces of content are encrypted on peer nodes, AFAICT. It's not any easier than to blast every peer torrenting chinks of a particular file (which, AFAICT, is still unheard of).

> being forced onto Dat or IPFS is equivalent to being erased

Yes, for now it is! It's a wild frontier without amenities for a normal netizen, such as a decent search engine. So the point of censorship is to force every important non-consenter to that wilderness without having enough other people to go there and civilize it, as they civilized the web, the online music access, etc.