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Re:Uncensorable Wikipedia on IPFS by bigbugbag on Tuesday May 09, 2017 @06:06AM (#14298808)
Maybe you have an example of how IPFS could so useful to China that it would revert a block, but it seems to me that the reason of existence and purpose of IPFS goes against the tide of Chinese governement preventing it from ever being useful to them.
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Re:Uncensorable Wikipedia on IPFS by Qwertious on Tuesday May 09, 2017 @10:28AM (#14300266)
The government has limits on how much it can defy economics - if it inflicts too much unnecessary economic damage on its corporate powerbase, they'll go support other factions, who promise to rectify this.

Relevant CGP Grey video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rStL7niR7gs

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