Stephen Walford wrote:
> Is there any way possible for someone to access Freenet sites with a web 
> browser WITHOUT first having installed the Freenet software, ie. general 
> http access?  If not, will future developments in Freenet facilitate this?

Not unless someone opens up a public fproxy I guess, and who would want 
to? Actually I considered this not more than 8 hours ago, when thinking 
about the wikileaks "takedown"/censoring. It went something like this:

People _really_ should start using freenet for this sort of information. 
The problem is that people are too lazy to install freenet "just" too 
see some sensitive information. Hey, I should open up a http proxy for 
freenet, and then manually add filters when government agencies start 
complaining. The filtered pages would simply say: "please install 
freenet to see this page, since the legal system has asked me not to 
show this". The hope is that by moderating things manually, I would not 
be prosecuted for anything (hopefully) and people will at least get a 
chance to see information before it is banned.

Removal of domainnames though, as for wikileaks, is really not a working 
measure as can be seen by the numerous alternative domain-names now up 
instead. So, the internet, for the moment at least, seems to do 
sort-of-fine without freenet. For this sort of information, at least.

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John B?ckstrand

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