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Re:IPFS is the Distributed Web by NeutronBoy on Sunday October 23, 2016 @06:40PM (#12775781)
> I'm so lost at this assertion. How is this a social / political problem?

How is it a technical problem? Current web technologies allow decentralised web (except for maybe root name servers). Everyone can host their own content, control their own servers, basically everything below your hostname. The implementation has led down a centralised path.

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Re:IPFS is the Distributed Web by fizzbatter on Sunday October 23, 2016 @07:50PM (#12775996)
> The implementation has led down a centralised path.

Sure, but choosing another implementation is.. a technical choice, is it not? Are you saying that if i choose to implement a distributed method it's not technical? What is my choice then, political?

Because i have no political motives.. purely technical. I want less data choking the pipes. Which is all IPFS is ultimately doing. Seems pretty technical (instead of social/political, atleast) to me.

Am i missing what you were conveying?

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