The problem is now. Countries like Chine and Russia, try to control it on country level. But they still do it bad, bad for users, bad for government. When they find good way to handle it, might other countries also will do the same.

Data is the weapon of feature.

> Countries like Chine and Russia, try to control it on country level.

UK is on that list as well sadly.

Canada wants to join the list, too.

There need to be far more robust and easier to setup technologies to let end users locally host their own services rather than leaving it all to the likes of Facebook/Google

We're definitely getting there, but it will take effort and time. To start with, we're building an open standard for encryption and ownership of notes. See https://standardnotes.org.

Would love any feedback/help. If you're interested in contributing, shoot me a message.

API looks solid, I may be interested in building a client for Android.

I think the main thing that will trip up users is the setup, they need hardware, they need to configure the OS, setup servers for their applications and fiddle with their router to allow port forwarding or bash UPNP until it works.

The average user just has no tolerance for that, its why they flock to managed services where they don't have to lift a finger (at the cost of their privacy)

Right, I imagine most people will not run their own servers. At least today. But as that get's easier, I'm optimistic that will change. For now, in the context of Standard Notes, early adopters will run their own servers, but I imagine others would just pay for a shared hosting service. Which isn't perfect, but the content will be encrypted locally so the privacy concerns are somewhat mitigated.

Android client would be convenient. I'm pretty close to finalizing a first release of the spec. Then I'm going to start on the iOS client.

Any contributions you make could accelerate progress on the spec substantially. Follow the mailing list on https://standardnotes.org or follow for updates on Twitter @standardnotes. If you're serious about building a client, shoot me a message @bitario.

Why is the Twitter CEO interviewing Snowden? People need to let this guy fade into the background of history. When users sign up or use services, such as Facebook and Google, they agree to the privacy terms. User control is in the action of not using those services. This is a ridiculous article.

People like Edward Snowden, Julian Assange, Kim Dotcom, Chelsea Manning, and Aaron Schwartz are making history, not fading into it, as they fight for human rights and freedom in the new information-based age.

I see Urbit is trying to solve for X here.

Who else?