Hacker News Reader

Comment by datadeft | Hacker News Reader

Those systems are trivial to shut down by any central authority. I would not classify those as decentralized.

Did you tell Hollywood your secret? They're dying to know how to "trivially shut down" all the decentral media sharing going on for decades. Even China's Great Firewall has its hole-punchers (https://github.com/barry-far/V2ray-Configs). Maybe they have an opening for Grand Master of Reality position you can apply to.

What do you think how much % of internet users are capable of using the tool you linked?

Do you think a p50 user goes for such measures to get to a service?

That was a nice change of direction from "it's trivial to shut down" to "how many users are capable". And the answer is - basically every single one of them is capable, it's just a matter of motivation. The right tools exist, the learning curve is somewhat steep, but this is irrelevant.

No it is not. Those are interchangeable.

> basically every single one of them is capable

Absolutely not. My mother is not capable of doing that.

What is interchangeable, your lie about "it's trivial to shut down" and your bs about "oh but that's too difficult"? Those are two different things, even though both of them are not true. And sure, you missed my point about motivation, probably on purpose. If (for example) for your mother using these tools was the only way to contact her close relatives I'm sure she would have found the way. Mine would.

How do you imagine they could shut down torrents and ipfs?

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.

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.

Reply on news.ycombinator.com