Censorship From 0 to 60
summary
Covers three concrete censorship vectors: arrests of volunteers (France case where an uninvolved editor is detained), infrastructure pressure (GitHub repo removals, Tornado Cash founder arrest) and access blocks (multiple Russian fines 2 million rubles, later 800,000 rubles, plus ISP filtering). Shows HTTPS adoption around 2015 stopped partial tampering, describes a working Swarm mirror that stores files by chunking + Kademlia routing, gives nodes plausible deniability, and cites real-world VPN failure in China 2019 as why decentralized mirrors matter; announces DMS 2.0.
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chapters (8)
- 0:00Internet censorship intro
- 3:18Human censorship tactics
- 5:29Infrastructure censorship methods
- 6:35Content access blocking
- 9:27Limitations of centralized VPNs
- 10:09Wikipedia on Swarm
- 12:03Anonymity benefits
- 12:44Censorship-resistant publishing
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