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Why don't they just use IPFS? I have seen Wikipedia put on IPFS and become uncensorable: https://blog.ipfs.tech/24-uncensorable-wikipedia/

I have never understood why it's called "wiki" leaks... what is wiki about it?

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IPFS isn’t uncensorable. The only thing it changes is that there isn’t a single DNS name which can be revoked or blocked. Otherwise, a government can follow the same process: resolve an IP, get it taken down or block it nationally, repeat.

That's much harder to do though, they need to continuously monitor new nodes and make sure blocking the IP does not have too much side effects unless I misunderstand how it works.

One day they will switch the policy from blacklisting to whitelisting...

Getting the nodes is easy: IPFS is designed to let you discover that.

Blocking them is generally low impact but there is one exception: I believe Cloudflare’s gateway (cloudflare-ipfs.com) uses their regular CDN IP ranges so it’s the same level of difficulty as blocking any content on their service.

To be clear, IPFS is a neat idea. I would just be very hesitant to recommend its use to anyone who has to worry about government restrictions.

At the time they launched I believe they used wiki software as an organising principle, it provided free text search, tagging and indexing.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wiki

Nothing. It was to get assangeleaks that whiff of collaborative spirit and openness (which was never the case).

Are you saying one couldn't leak documents on WikiLeaks if you wanted to?

Yes I am saying that. Assange wouldn't touch any leaks not aligning with his political preferences.

https://foreignpolicy.com/2017/08/17/wikileaks-turned-down-l...

According to that link, Wikileaks said they thought those documents were (1) published elsewhere, (2) not noteworthy and (3) unverifiable. When they were published elsewhere, no one cared, even though they related to Russia during a time when the US media was running all sorts of stories related to Russian corruption. I don’t see the problem with Wikileak’s behavior on that one.

There was not much noteworthy in cablegate, alas.

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