Freenet and Wikileaks
Several months ago I wrote about Freenet. It’s technically neat but I was underwhelmed by its utility, thinking an uncensorable network isn’t very necessary in today’s Internet. I wrote:
The primary value of something like Freenet in mostly-free countries like Canada would be Wikileaks, I would think. Well there is some of that - for instance there’s a freesite devoted to the leaked Sarah Palin emails - but the fact of the matter is that Wikileaks exists in the “real” censorable Internet and it hasn’t been censored. Or at least not yet. There’s been posturing that maybe it will be some day, we’ll see. But the fact that it hasn’t been yet takes away a niche market for Freenet.
Considering the reaction by the world’s governments to the most recent Wikileaks leak, I may have to reconsider Freenet’s role a little bit.
Several months ago I wrote about Freenet. It’s technically neat but I was underwhelmed by its utility, thinking an uncensorable network isn’t very necessary in today’s Internet. I wrote:The primary value of something like Freenet in mostly-free countries like Canada would be Wikileaks, I would think. Well there is some of that - for instance there’s a freesite devoted to the leaked Sarah Palin emails - but the fact of the matter is that Wikileaks exists in the “real” censorable Internet and it hasn’t been censored. Or at least not yet. There’s been posturing that maybe it will be some day, we’ll see. But the fact that it hasn’t been yet takes away a niche market for Freenet.Considering the reaction to the most recent Wikileaks leak, I may have to reconsider that.
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