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		chmod600 on Oct 19, 2020 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: The Centralized Internet Is Inevitable We see that a lot in practice, but it's not clear that there aren't solutions. For example, if it costs someone $0.00001 to send you a packet, that could still be decentralized but the economics change a lot. Maybe for the better.

dexterdog on Oct 19, 2020 | [–]

But then spammers just send like they usually do, by exploiting somebody's insecure setup and using their resources.

petertodd on Oct 20, 2020 | | [–]

If being exploited in that way was more expensive, it might happen less often.

krapp on Oct 19, 2020 | [–]

There is no solution which isn't equivalent to censorship, because "spam" is just a category of speech.

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