last three weeks mark the beginning of a new historic period — where we can no longer close our eyes and have to bear witness to how lack of access to information can lead directly to mass murder (colloquially called “war”). free uncensored speech is not a luxury, but an imperative for peaceful prosperous life and overall survival of humanity.
thus we cannot postpone any longer and today we announce the development of censorship-resistant, all-restriction-immune, privacy-protecting peer to peer worldwide network that will be accessible to everyone. of course, this is not enough to stop or prevent war, but it is a prerequisite.
by now, there are a few existing p2p solutions which also share some of our goals but they all so far fall short of delivering them in full. ipfs only specializes in storing files; beaker browser binds network and browser thus limiting user’s software choices tightly; 0net is drowning in attempts to become user-friendly, while unfortunately failing to address some core centralization issues.
there have been a few attempts at building dweb on blockchain; but while blockchain is a useful technology (and we will incorporate it as a part of our network, e.g. as a source of timestamps), solely blockchain-based projects are doomed to fail to be truly decentralized; as we know by definition blockchain is based on consensus that is emerging online — something that cannot be achieved when the network is fractured, for instance, by government and corporate censorship, or let’s say even space (imagine networking on mars).
furthermore, a network of the future needs to finally put the user back in control of the data flow: what information is downloaded, stored and uploaded should be a conscious choice instead of following directives of the site “owners” or browser “rules”. to avoid those completely preventable privacy exposures / leaks we would need apps and sites to be fully transparent, open and in computational proof that they do what they declare they do.
as early computer networks lacked in speed and scale, they also used to be more decentralised than today’s internet, which later changed in order to pull resources together and allow history to take its course; today there is no more need to keep compromising; thanks to technological advancement, we can build open, decentralized, free network for everyone. stay tuned for the updates and join us.
— riza committee