[Mnet-devel] interesting paper from Ross Anderson and George Danezis

[Some Guy]

 --- zooko at zooko.com wrote: > 
> "The Economics of Censorship Resistance"
> 
> http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/users/gd216/redblue.pdf
> 
> I haven't really read it yet.  It directly addresses the funamental issue that
> I've been wrestling with for two years now, and argues quantitatively for the
> other approach -- the one that Mnet is at this time not taking.
> 
> Of course "private Mnets", where everyone who connects to a certain set of MTs
> is part of the same club *would* be that approach, so perhaps we can have both
> worlds.

His main argument:
"While there are some individuals who would take a stand on freedom of speech on a broad range of
issues, there may be many more who are prepared to defend it on a specific issue."

He's arguing not to disrtibute the data, but leave it with people willing to serve it, because
they're going to try to defend it more.  He's got this idea that based on utility people will
spend resources to fight censorship in the form of layers, servers, bandwidth ect.

I totally disagree.  I think we should build a P2P net that "votes" based on how often data is
insert/requested(a resource war?), but then it should be all for one and one for all.  Any data
that reaches a small level of popularity should be protected by all.

My main complaint is that what Ross is now proposing is what we already have -- Web Servers.

The Red vs. Blue censorship example is a hint at the Red vs. Blue political divide in the US. ;-)

He is worried about News censorship not Music trading:
"Our model also assumes a censor that wishes to impose a certain selection
of resources on nodes. This is appropriate to model censorship of news and the
press, but might not be so applicable to the distribution of music online."


	

	
		
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