I've run Freenet twice in the last twenty years. Maybe 2006, 2012? Each time CSAM was surprisingly visible. Maybe these days it's kicked off to a corner but back then it was pretty much a click away.
I'm going to have to say if that's the basic motivation for censorship resistant communication in the USA, I am disappointed and sad.
Wonder if it's actually useful in places where you actually have censorship, or if it's just a nice beacon for the ISP to send the rubber hose men to visit.
Not to mention random links purporting to be terrorist manuals, normal porn, incoherent blogs and the other usual detritus.
I'm going to have to say if that's the basic motivation for censorship resistant communication in the USA, I am disappointed and sad.
Wonder if it's actually useful in places where you actually have censorship, or if it's just a nice beacon for the ISP to send the rubber hose men to visit.
Not to mention random links purporting to be terrorist manuals, normal porn, incoherent blogs and the other usual detritus.