Comment by wikitopian
4 years ago
The tor dark web already exists and everybody knows what goes on there. There are already decentralized crypto-driven naming services.
Merely improving the tor network's name resolution has nothing to do with your grand philosophical argument against internet freedom.
I believe we're arguing past each other. What I'm saying is there is no business model (one is even needed for free projects like the linux kernel) that motivates people to spend this effort. The people with the technical know how and desire to obtain the materials on it already use it. Beyond that group there is little motivation to expand such network, civil society tends to operate in the open.
I'm talking about an elegant technical solution to cloudflare's very real business problem. If they deliver a solid open source solution to the dark web name resolution problem, there's less pressure on them to host all sorts of marginal content.
A rare win/win.
"civil society tends to operate in the open"
... Some of us aren't up to your standards of civility and propriety, and we're going to find ways to get on without your permission.
Then write the code already, just don't demand that someone else do it for you.
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