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Re:OpenBazaar 2.0, powered by IPFS by SamPatt on Wednesday March 28, 2018 @07:24PM (#16703026)
There is no one search engine in OpenBazaar, that's the beauty of it. Anyone can run a search service returning results that people can see in the client themselves.

Our company (OB1) runs one service, and we do censor those listings and allow people to report illegal or offensive listings. However there are other search engines that choose to censor lightly or not at all, and everyone is free to use whichever search providers (or a combination) that they want.

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Re:OpenBazaar 2.0, powered by IPFS by alexbeloi on Wednesday March 28, 2018 @07:39PM (#16703135)
I'm not super familiar with ipfs, is that sufficient to cover yourself legally speaking? Does the company host any server nodes itself?
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Re:OpenBazaar 2.0, powered by IPFS by tylersmith on Wednesday March 28, 2018 @07:59PM (#16703269)
We have some bootstrap nodes and some data nodes to help provide redundancy on the network. We can control what content we serve from those nodes. I'm not a lawyer and can't speak to legal concerns.
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