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I love these sort of things generally from a technical perspective (I kinda have these fun day-dreams of a cadre of cool nerds and geeks setting up their own commune-networks against all odds in some distant future where they just have basic infrastructure etc)...

But ultimately I always feel uneasy and reluctant to get involved in general decentralized type things as I feel like I'll just be facilitating people sharing/distributing kiddie porn.

At least with Tailscale things are "private", but with this it feels like I would be part of the wider network. Will I be using my nodes to help route CP traffic?






You must abolish all privacy from the internet, and even then, you wouldn't be able to stop CP to happen.

Good luck, Mr. Big Brother!


Does my computer get involved when person A sends something illicit to person B? As a normal user on the internet, no. That's between them, and the law only deals with them. With certain decentralised anonymous systems, the answer is different. Now there are legal liability issues, at least.

"Gracious madam, I that do bring the news made not the match."

Tyranny is more of an actual and grave danger. And tyrants tend to be abusers too anyway.

Anything you build will eventually be used for something illegal.

The Internet should never have been invented, then, right? Same with letters, Facebook, cars, guns, knifes, farming, ...


The dilemna is not about technology or not but about anonymity or not. Anonymity offers some protection against authoritarianism but also encourages some bad tendencies (no fear of consequences).



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