Freenet is also based on middle-out compression.

No. Trying to push 30TB into Freenet will be interpreted as an attack on the network by other peers and they'll disconnect from your peer.

Freenet is better viewed as a communication medium than a storage medium. Data is prioritized according to demand, somewhat like an LRU cache. You can't upload 30TB and expect the network to preserve it for you.

On liability, running a Freenet peer is more like running network infrastructure that automatically routes and caches other people's traffic than intentionally publishing it. US law explicitly recognizes this distinction in the DMCA's provisions for transitory network communications and system caching. We discuss this in more detail in the FAQ.

You obviously haven't tried Freenet. You can join our room on River and you'll see no spam, no fraud, no hate speech, none of that.

Decentralized doesn't mean unmoderated. Systems built on Freenet can be moderated however their creators and communities want. River is moderated.

The difference is that nobody running one service gets to decide what everyone else is allowed to run.

Indeed... alpine touring is seemingly more en vogue these days.

They're 17. Brains don't work right at that age.

I will not write it, Sam-I-Am,
I will not offer colored ham!

I'm sure that was the intent, but (I think) it actually parses the other way. It's messy, so I'm not sure, but that's how I read it.

Particularly since Dark Tangent insists on having this in Vegas, which has such a high camera density it's almost unbelievable. And they use facial recognition everywhere.

The problem is that in our current hellscape civilization, just the accusation destroys someone, and there is usually no consequence for the person who made the accusation. Look at the Duke Lacross people for instance. We have a society where someone can claim that they were sexually abused 30 years ago and destroy someone. Nobody ever asks "Uh, why didn't you say something 30 years ago?" because that would be "victim shaming."

The "justice" system is an utter disaster. In this case, they locked a guy up for 18 months, destroyed his life and reputation, and get to say "Oops!"

My theory of mass extinction is some kind of massive gas wave coming out of some liberal's ass. That is at least as credible as this. Which is to say, not very. (/s for the sarcasm impaired.)

It probably has something to do with a Quality Learing Center.

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It's a feature. Supposedly all dark-skinned people are guilty.

While we're at it, why don't we pour hot grits on a Beowulf cluster while Natalie Portman confirms that BSD is dying?