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If you want full privacy your only real hope is going decentralised federation or peer-to-peer networks (mashable.com)

submitted 4 years ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Seriously any centralised social network hosted in the USA, Russia, China, Australia (to name but a few) is fully traceable, can easily be censored, and can be held legally accountable.

No so easy with peer-to-peer networks or decentralised networks hosted across numerous countries. It's not impossible, but seriously centralised network = no privacy.

See https://mashable.com/article/parler-first-amendment-fbi-users-outraged

#technology #privacy #parler #freespeech

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 4 years ago (6 children)

Yes, decentralization is the way, but it has to be aplied at the maximun level, at the ISP level. The only sustainable solution I see starts whit a decentralized internet otherwise the ISP still can deliver information to cental govs.

There are a number of aproaches being developed right now so it has plenty of potencial, and also some decentraliced VPN that works in a similar way.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 years ago (4 children)

What are the decentralized ISP options you know about?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 years ago

There is also Freifunk, although its not a decentralized isp per se

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