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Re:Beijing Wants to Rewrite the Rules of the Internet by workinthehead on Tuesday June 19, 2018 @02:09PM (#17348979)
I don't think it's accurate to consider the internet decentralized. Consider the entire domain name system is under ICANN control with a couple dozen root servers. Or the backbone which is almost entirely owned by Level3, Cogent, and a few other regional carriers.

Redundant is nice, but it's not decentralized.

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Re:Beijing Wants to Rewrite the Rules of the Internet by wsinks on Tuesday June 19, 2018 @03:16PM (#17349497)
Did you mean redundant (not or no longer needed or useful; superfluous) or resilient (able to withstand or recover quickly from difficult conditions)?

:)

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Re:Beijing Wants to Rewrite the Rules of the Internet by TeMPOraL on Wednesday June 20, 2018 @02:50AM (#17353142)
redundant - /Engineering/ (of a component) not strictly necessary to functioning but included in case of failure in another component.
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