We have seen in cases like social media, Internet advertising, and so on the following examples of attacks on freedom (in no particular order):
* CSS hacks that hide what is going on in a web page to fool users. * Javascript hacks that are non-free code and that spy on users, but without which various (dis-)services don't work. * The false security of a web that uses domain names as tokens of authority -- e.g. the ability of Facebook to track a person's use of the web in general, simply because they are able to store cookies keyed on the Facebook domain names. Many people have, as I think we all know, thought that distributed and decentralized systems are more liberating. Mastadon is one example of a system that has achieved some success, starting from that idea. Has anyone explored a new approach to multi-media hypertext -- one not tied to centralized servers -- along the following, simple lines: A peer-to-peer network (each node linked by choice to specific, mostly-trusted peers)... Using rsync as the underlying transport mechanism... With established conventions about how to share the namespace, do links between separately published documents, etc. .... With display customizations (analogous to CSS) and active behaviors (Javascript) NOT embedded to content, but selected by users similarly to how people install and use Emacs Major Modes that they trust? Such a system seems like an obvious step and a timely one to me, but is anyone already doing it? Would anyone like to start now? -t
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