[p2p-research] FreeNet

[Tomas Rawlings]

> How is this a "different side" of p2p, exactly? Freenet seems to me to
> be a p2p network like any other, though I suppose you could say that it
> isn't "pure" p2p or something because it is sometimes f2f.
>
> Using peer-to-peer networks for privacy and anonymity seems to be a very
> common side of p2p, though that may just be my perspective...
>   
Freenet seems to me the application of p2p technology from just the 
exchange of data sporadically to the whole infrastructure of the net; 
for example the idea of distributed hosted web-sites.

I broadly agree with the discussion of freedom of speech and it's 
abuses/limits - but what technologies like Freenet offer is the 
decentralisation of the decisions of what constitutes free-speech.  So 
in Burma, the junta decide what it is, whereas if they can't control it, 
then there is more of a sense of the society al large deciding by their 
participation/non-participate in content creation/consumption.

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Tomas

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