Most internet censorship eventually works on L3, having a distributed alternative to the world wide web won't make the internet more resilient.
(1) if a region's network uplink disconnected (like it was in Egypt) websites/webapps don't cease to work. People should be able to communicate + compute in these local networks without backbone access. yes this is possible.
(2) if i manage to make contact with you over a totally unorthodox data channel, like ham radio, or satellite, i should be able to _easily_ pipe my traffic and updates to you, and do so in the git-style of replication: offline first + bursts of condensed traffic.
this is not rocket science. (this is rocket science: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pl3x71-kJGM :D) our problems are much easier to solve, and we must solve them.
2) BitTorrent/ed2k?
I think it's important to make it useful to the non-techie person, so they know that whatever they put out there is guaranteed to last, rather than having to pay for hosting and such. This is just enthralling.
Creating an open content creation platform that will let users to create and upload media and text without any fuss will make IFPS a very viable choice.
I think it's interesting to consider the architecture of websites and how a non-decentralized content service has forced a centralized, systemized design of websites. Websites nowadays put more focus on design and fluff than on linkability of content. Maybe the very idea of a website is mainly because it's served from a single server. You couldn't have it coming from a million places, so you had to ensure that everyhting looked consistent and similar within this site.
But now with IFPS, we can reconsider the web stack and typical web design. We can reduce the content to themselves only and allow these to be linked with other content so everything's closer to being true hypermedia.
We really don't need any fancy web templates (think wordpress, squarespace, etc) if we are to achieve true decentralization. Heavily designed websites prevent them from being "decentralized" as in being too systematized/tightly coupled. Do I make sense here?
I'm actually working on this at the moment. I'm working on making it easy to create decentralized web content. I want to say I can, with some help from you and others, integrate IFPS as the backbone of this. Keeping IFPS in the picture brings back the decoupled nature of content with the guarante that the links won't go out of business. Nobody has to pay for hosting, nobody has to worry about content anymore. The world just became our one huge hard drive!
Could you explain a little more about this?
The most common form of internet censorship is through blocking IP addresses/ranges, and ports, the next common one is using DNS redirection for additional filtering. URL and packet inspection (keywords) happen but are quite rare, selective protocol filtering (deep packet inspection/IX) can happen but it's very rare on national scales.
Complete internet blockage is usually done simply through BGP, the government simply publishes new routes for all of their ISP's which usually just direct to a blackhole, since BGP is insecure in general an ISP can technically redirect traffic on it's own if it wants too and it did happen several times before (hacking team allegedly published rogue BGP routes to sniff traffic).