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Re: YouTube erased more than 700 videos documenting Israeli human rights violations

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Post by 93po » Thu, Nov 06, 2025, 5:38 PM UTC

fluoridation wrote: post #130

whamlastxmas wrote: post #129

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Unfortunately three letter agencies are going after exit node operators and threatening them in pretty fucked up ways. I think there's also likely some issues with very wide spread use of government owned nodes to be able to deanonymize people

What makes you think an alternative implementation of a deanonymization network wouldn't have the exact same problem?

there are ways of having privacy preserving communication/web browsing that are designed differently than Tor. Freenet is example.

Re: YouTube erased more than 700 videos documenting Israeli human rights violations

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Post by trinsic2 » Fri, Nov 07, 2025, 2:50 PM UTC

isodev wrote: post #102

trinsic2 wrote: post #84

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Decentralization just puts people that run servers as middle men to further impose a censorship agenda with ActivityPub. Whatever it is it needs to be distributed like BitTorrent.

It also makes it very difficult to censor. There is 1 YouTube and thousands of ActivityPub servers and relays that would happily carry all posts through the fediverse regardless if they seize one or two hosts. There are other options as well - that was a bit my point that Medium/X/Bluesky/YouTube - these are designed to harvest engagement in exchange for content. They’re not good for news and certainly not good as an…

In theory yes, but in practice, most of the traffic will gravitate to popular servers and the popular ones will be targeted by people that want to censor content and force the gatekeepers to silence content. The ones that don't play along wont matter because they are not that visible.

Re: YouTube erased more than 700 videos documenting Israeli human rights violations

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Post by Jean-Philipe » Sun, Nov 09, 2025, 8:25 PM UTC

konart wrote: post #81

Jean-Philipe wrote: post #34

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From my experience, it used to be quite normal for a lot of my non-technical peers to have a personal webpage on the internet with frontpage express, wordpress or geocities. Nowadays, even a lot of businesses don't have a website, but instead an Instagram or Facebook entry. YMMV The internet is still decentralized today.

Idk, most people I know used services like wordpress.com (so not self hosted), livejournal (and its local alternatives) etc. This if we are talking about second half of 00s. Before this? Most people barely have internet access at home. And things like BBS (for example) were for techies only with very few exceptions. Maybe it was quite different in the US for example.

Yeah sure wordpress.com or geocities are not self hosted - but you had much more control over your content. People would just link to other blogs they like or comment on their guestbook / comment page. People would host php-forums. In each friends circle (school or hobby groups) there was always at least one kid who would be tech enough to host some php app on a shared hosting, and people would actually use it. But just self-hosting was not really my point, it was the degree of control that used to be common. I'd argue even myspace was much better than what we have today.