I am looking for persistent storage which can withstand a takedown order by a court of law, and/or an attempt by a state actor to forcibly censor a website. The goal is to create a safe repository for records of human rights violations in my country during the lockdown. I’m researching options and l…

Simple answer: IPFS is not censorship resistant for now, see

Indeed, here it is https://github.com/ipfs/ipfs/issues/439#issuecomment-602072704

I disagree. Censorship evasion capabilities are incomplete, but decent. It depends on your threat model. Wikipedia is blocked in Turkey, but is still accessible from IPFS mirrors. See this blog post for details: https://blog.ipfs.io/24-uncensorable-wikipedia/ Similarly, IPFS was used for the Refer…

All of your examples are not “very” valid (or require some extensive technical skills), censorship-resistant necessarilly means that you can hide/anonymize things, this is not the case with ipfs, you can detect an ipfs/dht node and block it I agree that there are some kind of decentralized p2p cens…

Read also my comment here: https://github.com/ipfs/ipfs/issues/439#issuecomment-579470257 (made after reading #281, ie your link at the end of your post, showing that you did not read what I wrote before) and the last intriguing link maybe Decentralization, p2p does not protect you more if not desi…

Well, some information were censored, and were then available through IPFS, so I would still argue that it helps to fight censorship. The argument of IPFS needing technical skill is also debatable as UX is not really what we are talking about. Monero is very private but needs technical knowledge to …

IPFS is not blocked because nobody is blocking it, now you are right Tor is easy to detect (unless you use bridges or snowflake-like stuff), see https://github.com/Ayms/node-Tor/issues/2#issuecomment-66150611 , surprisingly node-Tor whether inside browsers or as a node could easily pass the Great C…

There is also the issue that no IPFS implementation (that I am aware of) stores the nodes it has previously seen, so for nontechnical users IPFS can be censored by blocking the bootstrap nodes and I understand this to be happening at least in China. Saving previous…

True. It’s ongoing but it needs a big refactor. There’s progress, though: https://github.com/libp2p/go-libp2p-kad-dht/pull/460 I think they want to ship it in 0.7 in July.

How censorship-resistant is IPFS intended to be?

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christianbundy May 3, 2020, 4:01pm 3

I think maybe your link was removed in the email-to-Discourse translation. Could you please post it again?

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How censorship-resistant is IPFS intended to be?

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