[Jtsummers]

Filecoin isn't really useful, is it? It suffers from the same lack of real censorship resistance as IPFS, on which it is based. It also suffers in that the barrier for entry for new nodes is incredibly high (I didn't know this until recently myself when I was considering throwing part of a NAS at it and found out they wanted me to have way more than just 16GB of RAM to participate). Freenet is more appropriate as it provides cover for people holding the information on their nodes that IPFS does not.

Additionally, IPFS has the same problem as torrent files in that it requires additional layers (which aren't all feasible or effective) to obfuscate the source of data. If sharing it has been declared, in some sense, illegal then IPFS will reveal who is sharing it. And once those nodes are forcibly removed (because governments are more capable of doing that than random individuals) then the data can disappear.

[fsflover]

> It suffers from the same lack of real censorship resistance as IPFS, on which it is based.

I guess, then I2P should be the solution?