It's "censorship-free" in the sense that a nation-state can't effectively block their citizens from using Lantern.
So, it's a censorship-free centralized distribution system, as opposed to a censorship-proof decentralized publishing system like Freenet. And it's centralized, so as soon as the central authority (the satellites) are compromised, the whole system is owned. IMO this is a neat first step -- it's not the whole way, but it's getting there. Now we just need Freenet or similar on decentralized microsats. On Thu, 2014-11-13 at 16:47 -0500, Travis Biehn wrote: > Do your own research on my statements, they are based on a brief > review of their marketing materials from 1-2 months ago: > > > The biggest problem I have with this project is that the sats are > centralized. I don't see how it can live up to 'censorship free.' > > > It depends on a crowd-sourced list of articles + funding from private > advertisers. > > > You need to be morally aligned with the 'majority of people' - the > minorities are still oppressed and marginalized. Corporate interests > pay for top hits. Not enough protection against sybil attacks. Many, > many many many more problems they need to address. > > > Neat idea on the face, though, just need to iron out some really big > problems (sybil, distributed control of sat systems, ???.) > > > -Travis > > On Thu, Nov 13, 2014 at 1:29 PM, Andy Isaacson <[email protected]> > wrote: > On Thu, Nov 13, 2014 at 11:17:25AM +0100, rysiek wrote: > > Dnia czwartek, 13 listopada 2014 09:52:35 Eugen Leitl pisze: > > > > > https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/lantern-one-device-free-data-from-space-forever > [snip] > > > Lantern continuously receives radio waves broadcast by > Outernet from space. > > > > > device. All you need is a browser. > > > > > > Oh, and Outernet is free to use, always. > > Outernet, at least, appears to be a real thing: > > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Outernet > > https://www.outernet.is > > > Is it just me, or does it reek of snakeoil?.. Also, is it in > any way related > > to: > > https://getlantern.org/ > > Appears to be a different project. > > -andy > > > > > -- > Twitter | LinkedIn | GitHub | TravisBiehn.com | Google Plus > -- Sent from Ubuntu
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