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Wikipedia describes Freenet as "a peer-to-peer platform for censorship-resistant, anonymous communication," released in the year 2000. "Both Freenet and some of its associated tools were originally designed by Ian Clarke," Wikipedia adds. (And in 2000 Clarke answered questions from Slashdot's readers...)
And now Ian Clarke (aka Sanity — Slashdot reader #1,431) returns to share this announcement:
Freenet's new generation peer-to-peer network is now operational, along with the first application built on th
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