A Censorship-Resistant Web (Aaron Swartz's Raw Thought) Imagine someone put a document up at that a) some people want to read and b) some people want to keep you from reading.
Step one: How it works now On the current Web, the way you request such a document is like this: You ask one of your pre-programmed root servers who is in charge of .comThey respond with VeriSign, so you ask VeriSign who is in charge of pentagonpapers.comThey respond with Acme ISP, so you ask ACME ISP where to find pentagonpapers.comIt responds with an IP address, so you request the page from that IP The censors can ask VeriSign to give them control of pentagonpapers.com, they can try to shut down Acme ISP, they can try to prevent you from getting hosting, and they can try to shut down your IP.
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