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Re:IPFS is the Distributed Web by amelius on Sunday October 23, 2016 @06:40AM (#12772920)
> I worry that this is another example of throwing technology at a social and political problem. [...] I would rather we do the hard work of fixing the web we've got

There are multiple flaws in your reasoning: for one, the web was also a technical solution to a social problem; also, IPFS is someone's hard work aimed at fixing the web we've got.

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Re:IPFS is the Distributed Web by idlewords on Sunday October 23, 2016 @07:13AM (#12773011)
The web was a technical solution to an information management problem at a physics lab.
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Re:IPFS is the Distributed Web by dredmorbius on Thursday October 27, 2016 @04:51PM (#12809968)
That was the initially scoped solution. It turned out that a lot of other actors had information management & sharing problems of a similar scope. Well before commercialisation of the Web.
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