Bennett Haselton believes that de-centralized information storage and transmission systems - so called 'Distributed Cloud' networks like <https://194.109.142.142:1984/redirect.php?url=http%3A%2F%2Fnews.bbc.co.uk%2F1%2Fhi%2Fsci%2Ftech%2F1313399.stm>Peekabooty, <https://194.109.142.142:1984/redirect.php?url=http%3A%2F%2Ffreenet.sourceforge.net%2F>FreeNet and <https://194.109.142.142:1984/redirect.php?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.google.com%2Fsearch%3Fq%3Dcache%3A35zAWt7cO0sJ%3Awww.cs.uchicago.edu%2F%7Ematei%2FPAPERS%2Fgnutella-rc.pdf%2Bgnutella%2Barchitecture%2Bnetwork%26hl%3Den%26start%3D4%26ie%3DUTF-8>Gnutella - will not prevent Internet censorship in the long run. He has written a short essay http://www.peacefire.org/techpapers/distributed-cloud.html pointing out the flaws he perceives in these systems.
Ian Clarke, the architect of the FreeNet project, responds here http://slashdot.org/~Sanity/journal/37275, defending Distributed Cloud systems and their abilities to prevent censorship, protect the identities of their users, and shield users from legal liability. steve "There is no protection or safety in anticipatory servility." Craig Spencer
