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Finding and blasting every peer is a bit harder, especially since pieces of content are encrypted on peer nodes, AFAICT. It's not any easier than to blast every peer torrenting chinks of a particular file (which, AFAICT, is still unheard of).

> being forced onto Dat or IPFS is equivalent to being erased

Yes, for now it is! It's a wild frontier without amenities for a normal netizen, such as a decent search engine. So the point of censorship is to force every important non-consenter to that wilderness without having enough other people to go there and civilize it, as they civilized the web, the online music access, etc.




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