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by jancsika 2337 days ago
Except everything after "Looking forward," is still an open research problem.

> Some have been exploring IPFS as a potential mechanism

IPFS has no anonymity, so individual nodes could be attacked the way individual torrenters got sued back in the day.

> but there are many ways this could be done

There are currently no scalable ways this could be done. If there were you wouldn't have a single bold researcher providing a single point of failure search engine that hops to some other location each time authorities shut it down.

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There is nothing that stops nodes from hosting IPFS content from behind a VPN.
Then you're just moving the point of failure to the VPN.