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Re:“We plan to hide ‘https’ scheme and subdomain ‘www’ in Ch... by realusername on Wednesday July 31, 2019 @10:03AM (#20574489)
That could be a useful feature for decentralization, we could finally serve a mirror of a blocked site with its real origin. Of course, it will probably not be designed by Google to be any useful I guess.
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Re:“We plan to hide ‘https’ scheme and subdomain ‘www’ in Ch... by southerntofu on Wednesday July 31, 2019 @04:19PM (#20578068)
Yeah that's the problem. Bringing more federation to the web would help defeat censorship by making it easier to relay/aggregate information while retaining proof of authorship.

That's just not the way Google is headed.

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