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It would be curious to know if given the choice of supporting mass surveillance or not being able to use services and products from brands like Apple, Google, Microsoft, Wikipedia, etc. - what consumers would choose.

If they'd opt to use those brands, seems like the answer to change maybe very simple.



I feel like the public has already implicitly chosen convenience over privacy and freedom.

IMO it is up to us techies to come up with a private and open system that offers the same conveniences without the privacy problems.

The perfect system to me would support:

- distributed (p2p) to avoid isolated silos and censorship

- Tor-style privacy

- encryption

- multi-user database support to allow dynamic sites (ie users have access to store their own posts/data on a site), not just static pages

- distributed torrent-style downloading and streaming of large files

- some kind of bitcoin payment system for people mirroring sites?

Zeronet combined with Tor is very interesting to me, although currently it doesn't support large file chunking or payment-for-storage.

IPFS is good but doesn't have the privacy or multi-user database support.


Freenet comes close, no database or torrent iirc though. Or dynamic sites(to my knowledge).


It also seemed very complicated to put your own sites up on Freenet. Seems like it's pretty easy for an individual to put something up on IPFS or Zeronet.




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