P2P for uncensored news?

[mike_c]

This is the view of the man who helped kickstart the concept of peer-to-peer (P2P) file-sharing, Cambridge University's Professor Ross Anderson.

In his vision, people around the world would post stories via anonymous P2P services like those used to swap songs.

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The effect of peer-to-peer networks will be to make censorship difficult, if not impossible," said Prof Anderson.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/3611227.stm

and another discussion here: http://www.arstechnica.com/

[The Sushi Bandit]

1. Dupe of this thread from Friday

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=102&topic_id=475303&mesg_id=475303

[mike_c]

3. my bad-- I looked for it in Media-- please follow link to original....

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[NewHampshireDem]

2. Interesting Idea, but ...

Doesn't blogging already essentially accomplish this? I know hosts could be shut down and filters put in place to censor blogs, but the government can't even control the flow of child porn making its way over the 'Net, so I'm not sure how they could stop bloggers. If they can't stop bloggers, then why use P2P for news?