Re: Elon is right about Twitter (and the web in general) but his current solution is wrong
> Well done, you've just reinvented Freenet with less encryption.
and fewer hops, since anonymity isn't a priority, unlike I2P/freenet.
> Now, what's Freenet most known for? Oh yeah, Child Sexual Abuse Material (CSAM). I wonder what you'd start finding on Twitter if it became truly censorship resilient?
I wouldn't be following paedophiles and nor would you or any other normal user. As exposure to content would require you to follow them neither of us would encounter CSAM. This line of reasoning would be far stronger if we were talking Gnutella, where searches are decentralised and where you don't need to follow people to connect with them.
> This claim is beyond naive - it's the same defence that The Pirate Bay, other torrent sites, and streaming site have used, and basically all of them lost their respective cases.
You can perform "DMCA takedowns" by providing a blocklist with the official client, this is what LBRY does and that puts them in compliance with the law. It's up to end users whether they choose to accept the filtering though. All you need do is replace the response to 'https://api.lbry.io/file/list_blocked' and boom!
Besides, if the product is open-source, anyone can make a fork at any time. Funny enough, when prosecutors discovered anyone could fork TPB (along with its database) they just gave up and took the loss. Only 3 people ended up in prison but everything was still functional as if nothing happened. They knew it was game over at that point and that no amount of prosecutorial aggression could put the genie back in the bottle. The same happened with LimeWire (now called WireShare) where the prosecution "took down" the service only to find a fork in the form of LimeWire Pirate Edition; at which point there were no further prosecutions.
Were Musk to open-source Twitter and rearchitect it as a P2P service, the exact same thing would happen. As long as he followed the approach LBRY currently takes he'd be fine, however, let's assume he doesn't. The key difference is that Musk would likely encourage forks from the get-go, stripping the feds of any public benefit justification for trying to go after him in the first place. That, plus his big bank and huge ego, would be enough of a deterrent!
Biting the hand that feeds IT
