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Is 4chan the perfect Pirate Bay poster child to justify wider UK site-blocking?

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361 points gloxkiqcza | 3 comments | 24 Aug 25 16:30 UTC | HN request time: 0.779s | source
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everdrive ◴[24 Aug 25 18:44 UTC] No.45006602[source]▶
The free internet might be gone in the next decade. Probably time to buy a few hard drives and do some archiving. I don't just mean piracy. Articles, blogs, anything you find precious.
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Flere-Imsaho ◴[24 Aug 25 23:19 UTC] No.45008700[source]▶
What do people think about email as an ever-lasting censorship resistant protocol? It's federated and encrypted at source (in some cases - see Protonmail, etc). I can run my own email server on my own domain, so for example I could have my news letter be an email subscription. Any attempt to censor me would require blocking my domain and/or blocking my email server - both of which could be moving targets.

I've always thought email is under-utilized as a distributed, censorship-resistant technology.

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1. balder1991 ◴[25 Aug 25 06:51 UTC] No.45011017[source]▶
I’m pretty sure I’ve seen an open source project that uses email as an encrypted chat app in the last months.

Edit: this one https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44335065

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2. Flere-Imsaho ◴[25 Aug 25 08:04 UTC] No.45011439[source]▶
Interesting - thanks. It looks like at least the Android and iOS apps have been updated in the last few days - so it is under active development:

https://github.com/deltachat/deltachat-android https://github.com/deltachat/deltachat-ios

Doesn't work with all email providers though, from their FAQ:

https://providers.delta.chat/

Proton mail isn't supported (I'm guessing because of the way Proton encrypts your email at rest?).

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3. solstice ◴[25 Aug 25 11:52 UTC] No.45012850[source]▶
AFAIK they recommend using a dedicated chatmail-enabled provider to avoid problems with using a "normal" email provider.

https://delta.chat/en/chatmail