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by mjgoins 4349 days ago
Copyright-based businesses in the US are going to love your philosophical take on censorship.
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That's how the internet works. If people are doing illegal things (like standing up to a totalitarian regime), they take on the risk of repercussion. (We can't tell a-priori what the information content is reliably).

People shouldn't accidentally store illegal things they don't mean to (hence blacklists) but you also don't want to snuff out freedom of speech of those who understand + are willing to take the risk. The issue is routing access to it is also considered hosting it (dcma takedowns for links on the web).

I think that the best thing is to have the default DHT include blacklists that can be updated to handle DMCA requests. Sort of like DNS works today. Definitely something that we'll have to figure out as time goes on.