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Re:Gitlab confirms it's removed Suyu, a fork of Nintendo Swi... by crtasm on Friday March 22, 2024 @09:57AM (#39790827)
How do you imagine they could shut down torrents and ipfs?
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Re:Gitlab confirms it's removed Suyu, a fork of Nintendo Swi... by datadeft on Friday March 22, 2024 @01:09PM (#39792747)
Like making it illegal and fining it?

https://www.reddit.com/r/germany/comments/2hxy4j/help_me_ger...

Or blocking the bootstrapping?

https://www.reddit.com/r/ipfs/comments/tzrkoc/is_ipfs_blocke...

There are plenty of options.

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Re:Gitlab confirms it's removed Suyu, a fork of Nintendo Swi... by crtasm on Sunday March 24, 2024 @12:06AM (#39805102)
Making something illegal isn't "shutting it down".

Your IPFS link is a screenshot of someone failing to access docs.ipfs.io in a standard webbrowser over HTTP.

Are you aware how many people use VPNs? Also take a look at how Tor Project hand out unlisted entry points into their network - IPFS could take a similar approach if it really came to it.

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