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Re:Twitter cut off the ability to read a tweet by fetching i... by posguy on Friday December 18, 2020 @04:20AM (#25465315)
Mhmm, hence why the Freenet proposition is a hard sell. The average person doesn't want to devote half their computer's storage space to storing encrypted data they have no insight into, especially when that data could be considered illicit in some jurisdictions when decrypted.
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Re:Twitter cut off the ability to read a tweet by fetching i... by Blikkentrekker on Friday December 18, 2020 @04:25AM (#25465347)
I suppose the problem of such ideas is that it will generally be filled with content that is illegal in at least some jurisdictions and will only be used by those that need it to evade the law and the amount of content that isn't legal on it will be minimal.

So the end result is that all one finds on it is child pornography, controversial opinions, leaks of government data, and the lot.

I suppose my ideal wish was a platform such as twitter that intermixes legal and illegal content.

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Re:Twitter cut off the ability to read a tweet by fetching i... by tomjen3 on Friday December 18, 2020 @07:05AM (#25466301)
That is what stopped me, but it is also a check on society. If something else ends up on freenet that is not cp, it is an indicator of something having gone terribly wrong.

I didn't realize it then, but if Hunter Bidens data had been put there they would have been basically impossible to censor and it might have swayed the election.

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