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[–]BravoVictor 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Yeah, it's been around for a while, and unfortunately is pretty shitty. I tried it a few years ago. It's basically if the web was all hosted on Onion routers, which is to say horribly slow and reliant entirely on enough random users hosting your site...which is to say it's not reliable.

And it's pure free speech model is also a double edged sword. The encryption ensure that the users running their local node don't know what they're hosting, so there really is no way to censor anything, even things like child porn. So anyone hosting a Freenet site doesn't know if they're helping an oppressed Chinese dissident trying to expose corruption or a pedophile hiding their porn stash.