Quote from: zeeman on June 06, 2017, 10:57:51 AM

Quote from: Anduril_FotW on June 06, 2017, 10:31:58 AM

Quote from: zeeman on June 06, 2017, 10:06:41 AM

Quote from: Anduril_FotW on June 05, 2017, 09:12:35 PM

Theresa May saying internet should be regulated to avoid it being used by terrorists:

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/theresa-may-internet-regulated-london-bridge-terror-attack-google-facebook-whatsapp-borough-security-a7771896.html

This sounds bad for the SAFE network...

Any thoughts on this ? Thanks !

They can't shut SAFE down once it's supported by nodes all over the world. Think of it like shutting down Bitcoin, how would you do that? Or how to shut down Freenet? Can't be done either. SAFE is based on open source software with its own browser.

Ok, that's reassuring. But they could make running the software illegal right ?
And they could hold the MAIDSAFE company or devs responsible for illegal activities performed by others on the SAFE network, just like they did with Ross Ulbricht from Silk Road.
Does MAIDSAFE have any publications were they adress these possible regulatory issues ?

Ross Ulbricht from Silk Road was running a bunch of servers on TOR so he was the owner of the website and running it. On SAFE there are no servers. Coming testnet will run droplets hired by MaidSafe but we already had community testnets owned by no one. Freenet is out for over 10 years and is not forbidden by anyone, nor do they keep the devs responsible for what's on that network.

On SAFE you can register a domain like safe://bitcointalk without anyone knowing who's behind it. Even in the upcoming testnet MaidSafe has no clue who registered what username/domain and what files they uploaded. Even while they run the current network. So you can compare it with Z-cash. Nobody knows who owns what. In SAFE it's nobody knows who stores what. And nobody knows who surfs/downloads what.

Ok, that sounds good ! Thanks for explaining and reassuring me about my investment Cheesy