Posted on 09/30/2016 12:14:07 PM PDT by blam
Brady Dale writing at Observer.com
September 29, 2016
A lot of weird stuff has been happening to data inside the internet’s walled gardens. It has been getting shut down by the people who own the sites we all depend on. There’s a protest going on at Facebook over the issue right now. One Turkish journalist is saying that his account has been blocked inside the country, at his government’s request; Palestinian journalists have a similar problem. YouTubers believe that their videos have been getting unfairly de-monetized by mindless robots.
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A Union Square Ventures and Y Combinator backed startup called Blockstack, just barely out of stealth mode, has been designing an alternative browser for what could be fairly described as another internet, one powered by the bitcoin blockchain. “They are in it for the long run,” Muneeb Ali, a CTO and Cofounder, said of his investors, during an interview with the Observer at his office. “They actually believe that this is the future.” In other words, even if a different kind of internet undermines past investments, investors still want to be positioned well for the next ones.
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Ali spoke on the TEDxNewYork 2016 stage, describing an internet that couldn’t be censored. In that talk, he said, “The new internet takes away power from these large companies and takes it to where it always belonged, with the people.” The architecture the team has built is completely open source.
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Where do we contribute?
“‘Second Internet’ That Can’t Be Censored”
We already have that: the Dark Web, or Deep Web. Or whatever it’s called.
Microfund it...fund me, etc...out liberal it...we should all pitch in and keep libs out...they can use the Chinese internet.
It cares about people more , I’m sure Willie and Melinda Gates say so.
I’d love to know how it works.
Especially for the average schlub using their local cable provider
Is it simply about unbreakable encryption?
It definitely needs to exclude rats and use high-high encryption. But, imho, this is all pie in the sky to think the $hitheads in government will allow this to operate “unregulated”.
BTTT
Well hey, it’s a free coun...
Excuse me if I don't quite believe that someone named Muneeb Ali is all for free speech. How about criticism of Islam? Is that okay?
“Blockstack” Startup Seeks to Build “Second Internet” That Can’t Be Censored
9/30/2016, 9:53:32 AM · by Biggirl · 67 replies
Breibart.com ^ | September 30, 2016 | Breitbart Tech
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3475203/posts
Interesting. Hope it works because Obama is about to give away the Internet to UN Control
“Is it simply about unbreakable encryption?”
No. All information is broken down into bits and then stored in hundreds of random computers worldwide. It is reassembled when someone calls for it.
But no one knows what is being stored on their computers (the data is also encrypted). Nor does anyone know where information they may upload is going to be stored.
So no government can know where the information is, or who uploaded it. Neither can a government censor it.
What is that....and how do I get there?
http://money.cnn.com/2014/03/10/technology/deep-web/index.html
And use this Tor browser:
https://www.google.com/search?client=opera&q=tor+browser&sourceid=opera&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8
I was going to try it, but backed away from it; a little too scary.
Microsoft is involved.
https://www.digitalasset.com/press/digital-asset-acquires-blockstack.html
https://digitalasset.com/about.html
http://blogs.wsj.com/moneybeat/2015/06/25/blythe-masters-quick-off-the-block-with-startup-buys/
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