I presume you've flipped the bozo bit on me and will take my response in bad faith but I'll do so anyway.
There's a difference between something that is intentionally anonymized, distributed and designed for perpetuity. These make freenet have an affordance for potential malicious use.
here's some recent instances, specifically with freenet: https://news.google.com/search?q=freenet%20arrest
There's no server to seize, no way to take it offline, it's there forever.
Last time I tried it, there was no way for me to blacklist content I did not want to be a node for. If a policeman had seized my laptop, who knows what they could have found in the Freenet databases, I certainly had no idea.
Maybe these people in prison are innocent non-technical normal computer users that just downloaded Freenet a long time ago, poked around for 20 minutes and it's been running for years without them knowing.
A jury of 12 non-technical people hear "This person's computer downloaded and distributed gigabytes of child porn" from the testifying police officer, and that's all that's needed I'd suspect.
You can call this the "4chan" problem. Regardless of the virtues of the people who built it, there weren't enough safeguards to prevent the bad actors from becoming the dominant users and eventually the inmates who ran the asylum.
I want the principles held by Freenet to be preserved and not polluted by propagandists, fabulists, scammers, and pornographers.
There's a difference between something that is intentionally anonymized, distributed and designed for perpetuity. These make freenet have an affordance for potential malicious use.
here's some recent instances, specifically with freenet: https://news.google.com/search?q=freenet%20arrest
There's no server to seize, no way to take it offline, it's there forever.
Last time I tried it, there was no way for me to blacklist content I did not want to be a node for. If a policeman had seized my laptop, who knows what they could have found in the Freenet databases, I certainly had no idea.
Maybe these people in prison are innocent non-technical normal computer users that just downloaded Freenet a long time ago, poked around for 20 minutes and it's been running for years without them knowing.
A jury of 12 non-technical people hear "This person's computer downloaded and distributed gigabytes of child porn" from the testifying police officer, and that's all that's needed I'd suspect.
You can call this the "4chan" problem. Regardless of the virtues of the people who built it, there weren't enough safeguards to prevent the bad actors from becoming the dominant users and eventually the inmates who ran the asylum.
I want the principles held by Freenet to be preserved and not polluted by propagandists, fabulists, scammers, and pornographers.